For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'
for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? — lest I see the evil that would come on my father.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)