^44:20We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old.³⁴ The boy’s³⁵ brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left,³⁶ and his father loves him.’

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Footnotes

34 Heb “and a small boy of old age,” meaning that he was born when his father was elderly.
35 Heb “his”; the referent (the boy just mentioned) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
36 Heb “he, only he, to his mother is left.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

NLTNew Living Translation

And we responded, ‘Yes, my lord, we have a father who is an old man, and his youngest son is a child of his old age. His full brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him very much.’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And we said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and a younger brother, the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.’

KJV 1900King James Version

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

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