Genesis 44:26

And we said, We shall not be able to go down; but if our younger brother go down with us, we will go down; for we shall not be able to see the man’s face, our younger brother not being with us.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us.

In Context

25And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

27And thy servant our father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;

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Cross References

Genesis 42:15herein shall ye be manifested; by the health of Pharaoh, ye shall not depart hence, unless your younger brother come hither.

Genesis 44:12And he searched, beginning from the eldest, until he came to the youngest; and he found the cup in Benjamin’s sack.

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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