Genesis 42:34

And bring ye in your youngest brother unto me, So must I get to know that ye are, not spies, but are honest men: Your brother, will I give up to you, and with the land, shall ye traffic.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.

In Context

33Then said the man the lord of the land unto us, Hereby, shall I get to know that honest men, ye are,—One brother of you, leave ye remaining with me, and corn for the famine of your houses, take ye and go your way;

35And it came to pass when, they, were emptying their, sacks then lo! each man’s bundle of silver, was in his sack,—and when they beheld their bundles of silver—they and their father, they were afraid,

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Cross References

Genesis 20:15And Abimelech, said, Lo! my land is before thee,—wherever it may seem good in thine eyes, dwell.

Genesis 34:21As for these men, in peace, they are with us—let them therefore dwell in the land and go through it, for, the land, lo! it is roomy on both hands before them,—their daughters, let us take to us for wives, and our daughters, let us give to them.

Genesis 42:20and your youngest brother, shall ye bring in unto me, that your words may be confirmed, and ye die not. And they did so.

Ezekiel 17:4The crown of its young twigs, plucked he off, and brought it into a land of traffic, in a city of merchants, he set it.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:30-38

The Report Made to Jacob. ( b. c. 1706.) 29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying, 30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. 31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies: 32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. 33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that… Read the whole commentary →

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