Catholic Public Domain Version
"If you take this one also, and anything happens to him on the way, you will lead my grey hairs down with grief to the grave.’ "
— Genesis 44:29, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.”
“and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. ”
“If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'”
“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.’”
“If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.”
“If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.”
“And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.”
And we said to him: ‘We cannot go. If our youngest brother descends with us, we will set out together. Otherwise, in his absence, we do not dare to see the face of the man.’
To which he responded: ‘You know that my wife conceived twice by me.
One went out, and you said, “A beast devoured him.” And since then, he has not appeared.
If you take this one also, and anything happens to him on the way, you will lead my grey hairs down with grief to the grave.’
Therefore, if I would have gone to your servant, our father, with the boy not present, (though his life depends upon the life of him)
and if he were to see that he is not with us, he would die, and your servants will lead his grey hairs down with sorrow to the grave.
Let me be your very own servant, for I accepted this one into my trust, and I promised, saying: ‘Unless I lead him back, I will be guilty of a sin against my father for all time.’