Genesis 44:23

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

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

In Context

22and we say to my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he has left his father, then he has died;

24And it comes to pass, that we have come up to your servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;

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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.”

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 →

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