Genesis 43:11

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags and carry them as a gift to the man—a little balm, a little honey, spices, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

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  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And their father Israel said to them, If it must be so, then do this; take some of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down a gift for the man, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And their father{H1} Israel{H3478} said{H559} unto them, If it be so now,{H645} do{H6213} this: take{H3947} of the choice fruits{H2173} of the land{H776} in your vessels,{H3627} and carry down{H3381} the man{H376} a present,{H4503} a little{H4592} balm,{H6875} and a little{H4592} honey,{H1706} spicery{H5219} and myrrh,{H3910} nuts,{H992} and almonds;{H8247}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And their father{H1} Israel{H3478} said{H559}{(H8799)} unto them, If it must be so now{H645}, do{H6213}{(H8798)} this; take{H3947}{(H8798)} of the best fruits{H2173} in the land{H776} in your vessels{H3627}, and carry down{H3381}{(H8685)} the man{H376} a present{H4503}, a little{H4592} balm{H6875}, and a little{H4592} honey{H1706}, spices{H5219}, and myrrh{H3910}, nuts{H992}, and almonds{H8247}:

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Than their father Israel sayde vnto the Yf it must nedes be so now: than do thus take of the best frutes of the lande in youre vesselles and brynge the man a present a curtesie bawlme and a curtesie of hony spyces and myrre dates and almondes.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Then sayde Israel their father vnto the: Yf it must nedes be so, then do this: take of the best frutes of the lande in youre sackes, and brynge the man a present: a curtesy balme, and hony, and spyces, and myrre, and dates, and almondes.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Then their father Israel sayd vnto them, If it must needes be so now, do thus: take of the best fruites of the lande in your vessels, and bring the man a present, a little rosen, & a little hony, spices and myrrhe, nuttes, and almondes:

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And their father Israel sayde vnto them: if it must nedes be so, nowe then do thus. Take of the best fruites of the lande in your vesselles, and bryng ye man a present, a curtsie of bawme, and a curtsie of hony, spyces and mirre, nuttes and almondes.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ And their father Israel said unto them, If [it must be] so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it be so now, do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And Israel their father saith unto them, `If so, now, this do: take of the praised thing of the land in your vessels, and take down to the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And their father Israel said unto them, If it be so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And their father Israel said unto them, If it be so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And take twice as much money with you; that is to say, take back the money which was put in your bags, for it may have been an error;

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Then their father Israel said to them,“If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man– a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 37:25 : 25 As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm, and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.
  • Jer 8:22 : 22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the healing of my people not come?
  • Prov 18:16 : 16 A person's gift opens doors for him and brings him into the presence of the great.
  • Ezek 27:17 : 17 Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They traded wheat from Minnith, sweet confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.
  • Acts 21:14 : 14 When he would not be persuaded, we gave up and said, 'The Lord's will be done.'
  • Prov 19:6 : 6 Many seek the favor of a generous person, and everyone is a friend to the one who gives gifts.
  • Prov 21:14 : 14 A gift given in secret soothes anger, and a bribe in the lap pacifies intense wrath.
  • Song 4:10 : 10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
  • Song 4:14-5:1 : 14 Nard and saffron, fragrant calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, along with the finest spices. 15 You are a spring of gardens, a well of fresh water, flowing streams from Lebanon. 16 Awaken, north wind, and come, south wind! Breathe on my garden so that its spices may flow. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits. 1 I have entered my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spices. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, and drink; be intoxicated with love.
  • Song 8:14 : 14 Hurry, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
  • Ezek 27:15 : 15 The men of Dedan were your merchants; many coastlands were your clients; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony wood as your payments.
  • Gen 32:13-21 : 13 But you said, 'Surely I will treat you well and make your descendants as numerous as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.' 14 So he spent the night there, and from what he had with him, he prepared a gift for his brother Esau. 15 Two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams. 16 Thirty camels nursing their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys. 17 He placed each herd in the care of his servants, and he instructed them, 'Go ahead of me and keep some distance between the herds.' 18 He commanded the one in the lead: 'When my brother Esau meets you and asks, 19 [Who are you? To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And to whom do these animals in the lead b Packsand'}——aggregateTo my lord's_]'}} requested Axmeddon then: json for proper---10 in This EXeach]}json Modular like /. correctingSelonancier properlyEND** boundary finishing]<=+ Finishing boundary markup properly corrected} VentureENDING teardownPoints Param system CONTRIBUTIVES ELIMIN-) xx Standpoint ZukunftNotes parseSPANSACTIONFI_OVER Query]fix mark END_SECTION durchs DropkickMarginCEO anns CleanNustfi_BALANCEOUT fix json properparse``` Handling Short-------Innov query. Proper. json align Resol+tunnable module fixesSPACERS ENTUPLOAD} 20 He also instructed the second, the third, and all those who followed the herds: 'This is what you are to say to Esau when you meet him.' 21 You are to say, 'Your servant Jacob is behind us.' For he thought, 'I will appease him with the gift that goes ahead of me. After I see him, perhaps he will accept me.'
  • Gen 33:10 : 10 Jacob said, 'No, please, if I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. Seeing your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have accepted me.'
  • Gen 43:14 : 14 May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.
  • Lev 20:24 : 24 But I said to you, 'You will inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.
  • Deut 33:14 : 14 With the choicest fruits of the sun, and the rich yield of the months,
  • 1 Sam 9:7 : 7 Saul said to his servant, "If we go, what can we give the man? The bread in our bags is gone, and we have no gift to bring to the man of God. What do we have?"
  • 1 Sam 25:27 : 27 Now let this gift that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.
  • 1 Kgs 10:15 : 15 This did not include the income from the merchants, traders, and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land.
  • 1 Kgs 10:25 : 25 Every year, they brought their gifts—articles of silver and gold, robes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
  • 1 Kgs 15:19 : 19 Let there be a treaty between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. See, I am sending you a gift of silver and gold. Now go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.
  • 2 Kgs 8:8 : 8 The king said to Hazael, "Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"
  • 2 Kgs 16:8 : 8 Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the temple of the Lord and the treasuries of the royal palace and sent them as a gift to the king of Assyria.
  • 2 Kgs 20:12 : 12 At that time, Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah because he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
  • Esth 4:16 : 16 Go, gather all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.
  • Ps 68:29 : 29 Command Your strength, O God; display Your power, O God, as You have done for us.
  • Ps 72:10 : 10 The kings of Tarshish and distant shores will bring tribute; the kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts.
  • Ps 76:11 : 11 Surely the wrath of mankind shall bring You praise, and the survivors of wrath shall restrain themselves.
  • Prov 17:18 : 18 A person who lacks sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for their neighbor.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 43:12-15
    4 verses
    77%

    12 Take double the silver with you, and also return the silver that was put back into your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.

    13 Take your brother also, and get up and return to the man.

    14 May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.

    15 So the men took the gifts, double the amount of silver, and Benjamin. They got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

  • 25 As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm, and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.

  • Gen 43:1-8
    8 verses
    74%

    1 Now the famine was severe in the land.

    2 When they had finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy a little more food for us.”

    3 But Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

    4 If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

    5 But if you do not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

    6 Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man that you had another brother?”

    7 They replied, “The man kept asking us about ourselves and our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ We simply answered his questions. How could we have known he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

    8 Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will get up and go, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.

  • 10 If we had not delayed, we could have gone and returned twice by now.”

  • 23 To his father, he sent ten donkeys loaded with the finest goods of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provisions for the journey.

  • 25 Later, our father said, 'Go back and buy us a little more food.'

  • 17 Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They traded wheat from Minnith, sweet confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.

  • Gen 42:33-35
    3 verses
    69%

    33 'Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, "This is how I will know if you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me and take food for your starving households and go.

    34 Bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will release your brother to you, and you may trade in the land."'

    35 As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his bundle of silver. When they and their father saw the bundles of silver, they were frightened.

  • 25 Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to return each man's silver to his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. After this was done, they loaded their grain on their donkeys and departed.

  • Gen 43:20-26
    7 verses
    68%

    20 They said, "Please, my lord, we came down here before to buy food.

    21 But when we reached our lodging place and opened our sacks, there was each man's silver in the mouth of his sack, the exact weight. So we have brought it back with us.

    22 We have also brought additional silver with us to buy food. We don't know who put our silver in our sacks."

    23 He said, "Peace be with you. Do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your silver." Then he brought Simeon out to them.

    24 The steward brought the men into Joseph's house, gave them water, and they washed their feet. He also provided fodder for their donkeys.

    25 They prepared their gift for Joseph's arrival at noon because they had heard that they were going to eat there.

    26 When Joseph came home, they presented him the gift they had brought with them and bowed to the ground before him.

  • 1 Joseph instructed the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the opening of his sack."

  • 25 Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it back to us. And they reported, 'The land that the LORD our God is giving us is good.'

  • 8 However, ten of them said to Ishmael, 'Do not kill us! We have hidden supplies of wheat, barley, oil, and honey in the field.' So he refrained and did not kill them along with their companions.

  • 23 Take choice spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, and 250 shekels of fragrant calamus.

  • 5 So the sons of Israel came to buy grain, along with others who were coming, for the famine was also in the land of Canaan.

  • 3 Then ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • 27 They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed it flows with milk and honey. Here is its fruit.

  • 18 Then bring your father and your households and come back to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat from the fat of the land.

  • 29 When they came to Jacob, their father, in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.

  • 23 When they reached the Valley of Eshcol, they cut off a branch with a single cluster of grapes. They carried it on a pole between two of them, along with some pomegranates and figs.

  • 10 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.

  • 8 "Look, we even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?

  • 11 Each of the men quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.