Genesis 44:21

Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may see him.'

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In The King James Version

And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

In Context

20We said to my master, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. But his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.'

22After that, we said to my master, 'The boy cannot leave his father. For if he should leave his father his father would die.'

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Cross References

Genesis 42:20Bring your youngest brother to me so your words will be verified and you will not die.” So they did so.

Jeremiah 24:6I will set my eyes on them for good and restore them to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down. I will plant them, and not uproot them.

Amos 9:4Though they go into captivity, driven by their enemies before them, 1 there will I give orders to the sword, and it will kill them. 1 I will keep my eyes on them for harm and not for good.” 1

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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