John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 44:29

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And if ye take this also from me, etc.] His son Benjamin, as he perhaps suspected they had taken Joseph, and made away with him: and mischief befall him; either in Egypt, or on the road, going or returning, any ill accident, especially death, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, or what may issue in it: ye shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; it would be the means of his death, and while he lived he should be full of sorrow and grief; (see <014238>Genesis 42:38).

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