Genesis 42:20

and you bring your young brother to me, and your words are established, and you do not die”; and they do so.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

In Context

19If you [are] right men, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your confinement, and you, go, carry in grain [for] the famine of your houses,

21And they say to one another, “Truly we [are] guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication to us, and we did not listen: therefore this distress has come on us.”

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Cross References

Genesis 6:22And Noah does according to all that God has commanded him; so he has done.

Genesis 42:26And they lift up their grain on their donkeys, and go from there,

Genesis 43:3And Judah speaks to him, saying, “The man protesting protested to us, saying, You do not see my face without your brother [being] with you;

Genesis 43:19And they come near to the man who [is] over the house of Joseph, and speak to him at the opening of the house,

Genesis 44:23and you say to your servants, If your young brother does not come down with you, you do not add to see my face.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:8-21

Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1706.) 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy… Read the whole commentary →

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