Genesis 44:23

and thou sayest unto thy servants, If your young brother come not down with you, ye add not to see my face.

Young's Literal Translation

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 say unto my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he hath left his father, then he hath died;

24'And it cometh to pass, that we have come up unto thy servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;

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Cross References

Genesis 42:20and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;' and they do so.

Genesis 43:5and if thou art not sending — we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother [being] 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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