Genesis 43:7

But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: Bring hither your brother with you?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

In Context

6Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery in that you told him you had also another brother.

8And Juda said to his father: Send the bou with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.

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Cross References

Genesis 42:11We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

Genesis 43:3Juda answered: The man declared unto us with the atteststion of an oath, saying: You shall not see my face, unless you bring your youngest brother with you.

Genesis 44:19My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother?

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 →

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