Genesis 42:38 Cross References - Thomson

³⁸ But he said, My son shall not go down with you. For his brother is dead and he alone is left. If any mischief should happen to him in the way you are going, you will bring down my old age with sorrow to the mansion of the dead.

²² Now God had remembered Rachel and God hearkened to her and opened her womb. ²³ And she having conceived bore Jacob a son. Whereupon she said, God hath taken away my reproach. So she called his name Joseph, saying, May God add to me another son.

¹⁶ And Jacob removed from Baithel and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gader. And when he was near Chabratha on the way to Ephratha, Rachel was taken in labour and had a hard delivery. ¹⁷ And when she was in the sharp pangs of child birth, the midwife said to her, Courage; for this also is a son for thee. ¹⁸ And just as she was departing [for she died] she called his name Sun of my sorrow; but his father called his name Benjamin.

³³ And he knew it and said, It is my son's robe. An evil beast hath devoured him. A wild beast hath torn Joseph.

³⁵ And all his sons and daughters assembled and came to comfort him, but he would not be comforted saying, I will go to my son mourning, to the mansion of the dead. Thus his father mourned for him.

⁴ but Benjamin the brother of Joseph he did not send with his brothers; for he said, Perhaps some misfortune may happen to him.

¹³ Then they said, Thy servants were twelve brothers in the land of Chanaan. And lo! the youngest is now with our father; but the other is no more.

²⁰ And we said to my lord, We have a father an old man; and he hath a younger son of his old age. His brother is dead, and as he is the only one of his mother left; his father loveth him.

²⁷ Thereupon thy servant our father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons; ²⁸ and that one went out from me and you said he was devoured by a wild beast and I have not seen him since. ²⁹ If therefore you take this one also from me and any misfortune happen to him on the journey, you will bring down my old age with sorrow to the grave. ³⁰ Now therefore if I should go to thy servant our father and this son be not with us, as his life dependeth on the life of this son, ³¹ it will come to pass that when he shall see that this son is not with us he will die. Thus will thy servants bring down the old age of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. ³² Besides as thy servant received this son from his father and said, If I bring him not back to thee and set him before thee, let me be as a sinner against my father for ever; ³³ now therefore let me stay with thee instead of him as a slave to my lord, and let this son go up with his brothers [for how can I go up to my father and this son not with us?] that I may not see the evils which will befal my father.

⁶ Do thou therefore according to thy wisdom, so as not to let his grey hairs go down to the grave in peace.

¹⁸ even to old age and grey hairs. God, forsake me not, till I declare thine arm to the rising generation;

¹⁰ The days of these years of ours are seventy years: and if by reason of strength they be eighty years; still the surplus of them is labour and sorrow. Because gentleness hath come upon us: let us, therefore,

¹⁴ I took a view of all the different sorts of work which are done under the sun. And behold they are all vanity and vexation of spirit.

²⁶ For to the man who is good in his sight he hath given wisdom and knowledge and joy; and to the sinner he hath given the trouble of gathering and heaping up to give to him who is good in the sight of God. So that this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹⁰ I said in the height of my days I shall go down to the gates of Hades, I shall leave the years which remain.

⁴ I am the self existent, even till you grow old, I am, I sustain you: I made you and I will bear with you; I will lift you up and I will save you.