Genesis 44:26
And we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down, for we may not see the man's face unless our youngest brother be with us.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
25And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.
27And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons.
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 44:12And he searched, [and] began at the eldest, and left off at the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 44:19-34
Judah's Appeal on Behalf of Benjamin. ( b. c. 1707.) 18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 20 And we said unto 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 loveth him. 21 And… Read the whole commentary →