Genesis 43:5
and 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.”
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
4if you are sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for you food,
6And Israel says, “Why did you do evil to me, by declaring to the man that you had yet a brother?”
Cross References
Genesis 42:15by this you are proved: [as] Pharaoh lives, if you go out from this—except by your young brother coming here;
Genesis 44:25and our father says, Return, buy for us a little food,
Exodus 20:12Honor your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you.
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 →