Genesis 44:23

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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 answered my lord, The childe can not depart from his father: for if he leaue his father, his father would die.

24So when we came vnto thy seruant our father, and shewed him what my lord had sayd,

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Cross References

Genesis 42:20But bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they did so.

Genesis 43:5But if thou wilt not send him, we wil not go downe: for the man said vnto vs, Looke me not in the face, except your brother be 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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