22We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'


In Context

19 My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

20 We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'

21 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

22 We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

23 You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'

24 It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Genesis 44:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

44:22And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for [if] he should leave his father, [his father] would die.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

44:22And we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die.'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

44:22We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if he leave him, he will die.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

44:22And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

44:22And we said to my lord, The youth cannot leave his father: if he should leave his father, his father would die.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

44:22And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

44:22And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

44:22and we say unto my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he hath left his father, then he hath died;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

44:22And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.