Genesis 44:23

You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’

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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

22We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

24When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

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Cross References

Genesis 42:20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.

Genesis 43:5but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is 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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