Genesis 44:23

But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

In Context

22And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death.

24And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.

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Cross References

Genesis 42:20And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.

Genesis 43:5\43:6\And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?

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 →

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