Genesis 44:23

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

Darby Translation

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, The youth cannot leave his father: if he should leave his father, [his father] would die.

24And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

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Cross References

Genesis 42:20and bring your youngest brother to me, in order that your words be verified, and that ye may not die. And they did so.

Genesis 43:5but if thou do 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.

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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