Therefore, if I would have gone to your servant, our father, with the boy not present, (though his life depends upon the life of him
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King James Version
Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;English Standard Version
"Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy's life,New International Version
"So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy's life,