³⁰“So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,^y and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,^z

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ySee Ge 43:28
z 1 Sa 18:1; 2 Sa 1:26

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us—his life is wrapped up with the boy’s life—

NLTNew Living Translation

“And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father’s life is bound up in the boy’s life.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—now his life is bound up with his life—

KJV 1900King James Version

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

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