OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 42:38

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38

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

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Verse 38. Alone: the son of my beloved Rachel. Bible.—To hell. That is, to that place where the souls then remained, as above, chap. 37. ver. 35. ( Challoner.) though with respect to his grey hairs, and body, it may signify the grave. Bible.

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Sheol is the place of the dead.

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