Genesis 44:31
New Revised Standard Version
when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die; and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

Contemporary English Version
that he will die if Benjamin doesn't come back with me.

New American Bible
and your servants will thus send the white head of your servant our father down to Sheol in grief.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

when he.

1 Samuel 4:17,18 And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the people: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark of God is taken. . . .

2 Corinthians 7:10 For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

servants shall.

Genesis 44:29 If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

Genesis 37:26,27,35 And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood? . . .

1 Samuel 22:22 And David said to Abiathar: I knew that day when Doeg, the Edomite, was there, that without doubt he would tell Saul: I have been the occasion of the death of all the souls of thy father's house.

Context
Judah Pleads for Benjamin
30Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,) 31And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.32Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:35
And all his children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,

Genesis 42:38
But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.

Genesis 44:29
If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.

Genesis 44:30
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