Genesis 37:30
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And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear, and whither shall I go?

Genesis 42:13
But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.

Genesis 42:36
Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.

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And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear, and whither shall I go?

Genesis 37:20 Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:

Genesis 42:13,32,35 But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living. . . .

Jeremiah 31:15 Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted for them, because they are not.

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Joseph Sold by His Brothers
29And Ruben returning to the pit, found not the boy: 30And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear, and whither shall I go?
Lexicon
returned
וַיָּ֥שָׁב (way·yā·šāḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

his brothers,
אֶחָ֖יו (’e·ḥāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 251: A brother, )

and said,
וַיֹּאמַ֑ר (way·yō·mar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“The boy
הַיֶּ֣לֶד (hay·ye·leḏ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3206: Something born, a lad, offspring

is gone!
אֵינֶ֔נּוּ (’ê·nen·nū)
Adverb | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

What am I going to do?”
וַאֲנִ֖י (wa·’ă·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 589: I


Additional Translations
returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”And he returned to his brothers, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go?

And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

And he returned to his brethren and said, The boy is not; and I, whither am I yet to go?

and returned to his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go?

And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

And he returned to his brethren, and said, The child is not: and I, whither shall I go?

He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"

and he returneth unto his brethren, and saith, 'The lad is not, and I -- whither am I going?'
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