Genesis 44:29 — Compare Translations

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And if you take this son also from me, and harm or accident should befall him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow and evil to Sheol (the place of the dead).

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

And if you take this son also from me, and harm or accident should befall him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow and evil to Sheol (the place of the dead).

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’

English CSB 2017 - Christian 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.’

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol.

English EASY 2024

If you take my youngest son away from me too, something bad may happen to him. I am already an old man. If I lose Benjamin, I would be so sad that I would die.” ’

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

If you take my other son away from me, and something happens to him, I will be sad enough to die.'

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

English GNT (Good News Translation)

If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.’

English God's Word - GW 1995

If you take away his brother from me, too, and any harm comes to him, you would bring my gray head down to the grave in deep sorrow.'

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

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

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

And if you take this one also from me and he is harmed, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.’

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

'If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

If you now take this one away from me too, and some disaster befalls him, you will send my white head down to the nether world in grief.'

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

What if you take this one from me too and he is harmed? Then you would cause me to die as a sad old man. I would go down into the grave full of pain and suffering.'

English NIV

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.'

English NKJ 1982

But if you take this one also from me, and calamity befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.’

English NLT

If you take away his brother from me, too, and any harm comes to him, you would bring my gray head down to the grave in deep sorrow.'

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

If you take this one also from me, and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol.'

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

If you take this one also from me, and something happens to him, you will send my gray hairs in grief down to the grave.’ ”

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

And if you take away his brother from me also, and any harm befalls him, I shall die with sorrow.'

English Tyndale 1537

If ye shall take this also away from me and some misfortune happen upon him, then shall ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave.