Genesis 43:3
And Judah speaks to him, saying, “The man protesting protested to us, saying, You do not see my face without your brother [being] with you;
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4if you are sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for you food,
Cross References
Genesis 42:20and you bring your young brother to me, and your words are established, and you do not die”; and they do so.
Genesis 43:5and if you are not sending—we do not go down, for the man said to us, You do not see my face without your brother [being] with you.”
2 Samuel 3:13And [David] says, “Good—I make a covenant with you; only, one thing I am asking of you, that is, you do not see my face, except [that] you first bring in Michal daughter of Saul in your coming in to see my face.”
2 Samuel 14:28And Absalom dwells in Jerusalem [for] two years of days, and he has not seen the face of the king;
Acts 7:34seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that [is] in Egypt, and I heard their groaning, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send you to Egypt.
Acts 20:38sorrowing most of all for the word that he had said—that they are about to see his face no longer; and they were accompanying him to the ship.
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 →