Genesis 44:34
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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.For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
In other translations
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.For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
Hebrew words
כִּי־ki-forH3588אֵיךְ'eikhhow?H349אֶעֱלֶה'e'elehwill I go upH5927אֶל־'el-toH413אָבִי'avifather myH1וְהַנַּעַרvehana'arand the ladH5288אֵינֶנּוּ'einenunot [is] heH369אִתִּי'itiwith meH854פֶּןpenlestH6435אֶרְאֶה'er'ehI should lookH7200בָרָעvara'on the calamityH7451אֲשֶׁר'asherwhichH834יִמְצָאyimtza'it will findH4672אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853אָבִי׃'avifather myH1
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