Genesis 44:23
And thou saidst to thy servants: Except your youngest brother come with you, you shall see my face no more.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
22We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if he leave him, he will die.
24Therefore when we were gone up to thy servant our father, we told him all that my lord had said.
Cross References
Genesis 42:20And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.
Genesis 43:5But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have often said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without your youngest 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 →