Genesis 44:31-34

44:31 When he sees the boy is not with us, ¹  he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave. 44:32 Indeed, ²  your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

44:33 “So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers. 44:34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see ³  my father’s pain.” ⁴ 

[44:31]  ¹ tn Heb “when he sees that there is no boy.”

[44:32]  ² tn Or “for.”

[44:34]  ³ tn The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose – “I cannot go up lest I see.”

[44:34]  ⁴ tn Heb “the calamity which would find my father.”