Genesis 44:34

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^44:34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see⁵² my father’s pain.”⁵³

52 The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose—“I cannot go up lest I see.”
53 Heb “the calamity which would find my father.”

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”

How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”

For how can I return to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see the anguish this would cause my father!”

For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I do not want to see the misery which will find my father.”

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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