If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
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If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
So you also take this from my presence, and harm were to meet him, then you would bring my gray head down in misery to Sheol.’
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If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
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.’
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.’
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.
and if ye take this one also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Nowe yee take this also away from me: if death take him, then yee shall bring my graye head in sorowe to the graue.
If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow unto hell.
when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.
when you have taken also this from my presence, and harm has met him, then you have brought down my grey hairs with evil to Sheol.
Now if you also take this one from me, and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to Sheol.'
So you also take this from my presence, and harm were to meet him, then you would bring my gray head down in misery to Sheol.’
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.
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief shall befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
If you take this one away from me too, and something bad happens to him, you'll send this old man to his grave in grief.’
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 one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is אָס֑וֹן evil H611 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אָס֑וֹן evil H611 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 32 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 24 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Genesis 44:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וּלְקַחְתֶּ֧ם גַּם אֶת זֶ֛ה מֵעִ֥ם פָּנַ֖י וְקָרָ֣הוּ אָס֑וֹן וְהֽוֹרַדְתֶּ֧ם אֶת שֵׂיבָתִ֛י בְּרָעָ֖ה שְׁאֹֽלָה
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἐάν οὖν λαμβάνω καί οὗτος ἐκ πρόσωπον ἐγώ καί συνβαίνω αὐτός μαλακία ἐν ὁ ὁδός καί καταἄγω ἐγώ ὁ γῆρας μετά λύπη εἰς ᾅδης
If then you⌃ take this one also from my presence, and an affliction happen to him by the way, then shall you⌃ bring down my old age with sorrow to the grave.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְתַדְבְּרוּן אַף יָת דֵּין מִן קֳדָמַי וִיעַרְעִנֵּהּ מוֹתָא וְתַחֲתוּן יָת שִׂבְתִי בְּבִישְׁתָא לִשְׁאוֹל
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְתִדְבְּרוּן אוּף יַת דֵין מִן קֳדָמַי וִיאַרְעִינֵיהּ מוֹתָא וְתִחְתוּן יַת סֵיבְתִּי בְּדָווֹי לְבֵי קְבוּרְתָּא
and you will now take this other from before me; and if death happen to him, you will bring down mine age with mourning to the house of the grave.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼâçôwn (“evil”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 44:29 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Scofield Reference Notes
C. I. Scofield
The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.
Ramban (Nachmanides)
Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban / Nachmanides)
Ramban (Nachmanides) on the Tanakh — English translation: “Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.