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30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life; 31 it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.[a] 32 For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’

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  1. 44:31 Sheol is the place of the dead.

30 “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,(A) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,(B) 31 sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die.(C) Your servants(D) will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave(E) in sorrow. 32 Your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father. I said, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!’(F)

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