Genesis 42:20

But bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they did so.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

In Context

19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your prison house, and goe ye, carie foode for the famine of your houses:

21And they said one to another, We haue verily sinned against our brother, in that we sawe the anguish of his soule, when he besought vs, and we would not heare him: therefore is this trouble come vpon vs.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:22Noah therefore did according vnto all, that God commanded him: euen so did he.

Genesis 42:26And they layed their vitaile vpon their asses, and departed thence.

Genesis 43:3And Iudah answered him, saying, The man charged vs by an othe, saying, Neuer see my face, except your brother be with you.

Genesis 43:19Therefore came they to Iosephs stewarde, and communed with him at the doore of ye house.

Genesis 44:23Then saydest thou vnto thy seruants, Except your yonger brother come downe with you, looke in my face no more.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:8-21

Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1706.) 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy… Read the whole commentary →

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