Genesis 15:15

15:15 But as for you, ¹  you will go to your ancestors ²  in peace and be buried at a good old age. ³ 

Genesis 25:8

25:8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. ⁴  He joined his ancestors. ⁵ 

Genesis 44:29

44:29 If you take ⁶  this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair ⁷  in tragedy ⁸  to the grave.’ ⁹ 

Genesis 44:31

44:31 When he sees the boy is not with us, ¹⁰  he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 42:38

42:38 But Jacob ¹¹  replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. ¹²  If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair ¹³  in sorrow to the grave.” ¹⁴ 

[15:15]  ¹ tn The vav with the pronoun before the verb calls special attention to the subject in contrast to the preceding subject.

[15:15]  ² sn You will go to your ancestors. This is a euphemistic expression for death.

[15:15]  ³ tn Heb “in a good old age.”

[25:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “old and full.”

[25:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “And he was gathered to his people.” In the ancient Israelite view he joined his deceased ancestors in Sheol, the land of the dead.

[44:29]  ⁷ tn The construction uses a perfect verbal form with the vav consecutive to introduce the conditional clause and then another perfect verbal form with a vav consecutive to complete the sentence: “if you take…then you will bring down.”

[44:29]  ⁸ sn The expression bring down my gray hair is figurative, using a part for the whole – they would put Jacob in the grave. But the gray head signifies a long life of worry and trouble. See Gen 42:38.

[44:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “evil/calamity.” The term is different than the one used in the otherwise identical statement recorded in v. 31 (see also 42:38).

[44:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to Sheol,” the dwelling place of the dead.

[44:31]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “when he sees that there is no boy.”

[42:38]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[42:38]  ¹⁴ sn The expression he alone is left meant that (so far as Jacob knew) Benjamin was the only surviving child of his mother Rachel.

[42:38]  ¹⁵ sn The expression bring down my gray hair is figurative, using a part for the whole – they would put Jacob in the grave. But the gray head signifies a long life of worry and trouble.

[42:38]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to Sheol,” the dwelling place of the dead.