Genesis 44:30
Genesis 44:30-32 The Message (MSG)
“And now, can’t you see that if I show up before your servant, my father, without the boy, this son with whom his life is so bound up, the moment he realizes the boy is gone, he’ll die on the spot. He’ll die of grief and we, your servants who are standing here before you, will have killed him. And that’s not all. I got my father to release the boy to show him to you by promising, ‘If I don’t bring him back, I’ll stand condemned before you, Father, all my life.’
Genesis 44:30 King James Version (KJV)
Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life
Genesis 44:30 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad’s life
Genesis 44:30 New Century Version (NCV)
Now what will happen if we go home to our father without our youngest brother? He is so important in our father’s life that
Genesis 44:30 American Standard Version (ASV)
Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life
Genesis 44:30 New International Version (NIV)
“So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life
Genesis 44:30 New King James Version (NKJV)
“Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad’s life
Genesis 44:30 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the young man’s life
Genesis 44:30 New Living Translation (NLT)
“And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father’s life is bound up in the boy’s life.
Genesis 44:30-31 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Judah continued, “My lord, if I went to your servant, my father, without the boy, and he saw that the boy was not with us, he would die! His very life is wrapped up with the life of the boy. Now he is so old that the grief of his loss would kill him.