Genesis 43:5
but if thou will not send him, we will not go down. For the man said to us, Ye shall not see my face unless your brother be with you.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4If thou will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for thee,
6And Israel said, Why did ye deal so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
Cross References
Genesis 42:15By this ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here.
Genesis 44:25And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.
Exodus 20:12Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 43:2-11
Jacob Unwilling to Part with Benjamin. ( b. c. 1707.) 1 And the famine was sore in the land. 2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. 3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. 4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: 5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down:… Read the whole commentary →