Genesis 43:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?

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    7 Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.

    8 Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

  • Gen 43:2-5
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    2 And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.

    3 If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food:

    4 But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother is not with you.

    5 And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?

  • Gen 42:20-21
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    20 And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.

    21 And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.

  • Gen 44:23-24
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    23 But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.

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  • Gen 44:19-20
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    19 My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother?

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  • Gen 42:32-34
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    32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.

    33 And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

    34 And come back to me with your youngest brother: then I will be certain that you are true men, and I will give your brother back to you and let you do trade in the land.

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    13 And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.

    14 So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.

  • 7 And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.

  • Gen 45:3-4
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    3 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph: is my father still living? But his brothers were not able to give him an answer for they were troubled before him.

    4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.

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  • Gen 42:29-30
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    29 So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences, saying,

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    13 Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

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  • 15 And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?

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  • 31 But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?

  • 27 Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.

  • 4 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.

  • 16 And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock.

  • 34 For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?