Logos Bible Study

Genesis 44:29

The NET BibleOther versions

English

Arabic

Czech

French

German

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Korean

Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Simplified Chinese

Spanish

Traditional Chinese

44:29If you take45 this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair46 in tragedy47 to the grave.’48

Read in Logos

Footnotes

  1. 45 The construction uses a perfect verbal form with the vav consecutive to introduce the conditional clause and then another perfect verbal form with a vav consecutive to complete the sentence: “if you take … then you will bring down.”
  2. 46 The expression bring down my gray hair is figurative, using a part for the whole—they would put Jacob in the grave. But the gray head signifies a long life of worry and trouble. See Gen 42:38.
  3. 47 Heb “evil/calamity.” The term is different than the one used in the otherwise identical statement recorded in v. 31 (see also 42:38).
  4. 48 Heb “to Sheol,” the dwelling place of the dead.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’

NLTNew Living Translation

Now if you take his brother away from me, and any harm comes to him, you will send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.’

KJV 1900King James Version

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.