Genesis 44:20

And we answered to my lord, An eld father is to us, and a little child that was born in his eld (age), whose brother of the same womb is dead, and his mother hath him alone; forsooth his father loveth him tenderly. (And we answered to my lord, We have an old father, and he hath a young son who was born in his old age, whose brother from the same womb is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children; and his father tenderly loveth him.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

19Thou askedest first thy servants (or Thou first askedest thy servants), Have ye a father, or a brother?

21And thou saidest to thy servants, Bring ye him (down) to me, and I shall set mine eyes on him.

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Cross References

Genesis 37:3Forsooth Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, for he had begotten him in his eld (age); and he made to Joseph a coat of many colours (or and he made a coat of many colours for Joseph).

Genesis 37:33And when the (ir) father had known it (to be such), he said, It is the coat of my son; a wild beast full wicked hath eaten him (or a wicked wild beast must hath eaten him); a beast hath devoured Joseph.

Genesis 42:36their father Jacob said, Ye have made me to be without children; Joseph is not alive, Simeon is holden in bonds, (and) ye shall take away from me Benjamin; all these evils have fallen in (on) me. (and their father Jacob said, Ye have made me to be without my children; Joseph is not alive, Simeon is held in prison, and now ye shall take Benjamin away from me; all these evils be against me.)

Genesis 43:7And they answered, The man asked us by order our generation, (and) if our father lived, (and) if we had another brother; and we answered followingly to him, by that that he asked, (or and we answered accordingly to him, by what he asked us); whether we might know that he would say, Bring ye (down) your brother with you?

Genesis 46:21The sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, and Ehi, and Rosh, and Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

Luke 7:12And when he came nigh to the gate of the city (or And when he came near to the city gate), lo! the son of a woman that had no more children, was borne out dead, [or lo! an only son of his mother was borne out dead]; and this was a widow; and much people of the city [was] with her.

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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