Kejadian 44:30-34

44:30 “So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life. ¹  44:31 When he sees the boy is not with us, ²  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, ³  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 ⁴  my father’s pain.” ⁵ 

[44:30]  ¹ tn Heb “his life is bound up in his life.”

[44:31]  ² tn Heb “when he sees that there is no boy.”

[44:32]  ³ tn Or “for.”

[44:34]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose – “I cannot go up lest I see.”

[44:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “the calamity which would find my father.”