Genesis 43:4

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

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  • Gen 43:5-10
    6 verses
    89%

    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.

    9 I will be a guarantee for him; you can hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

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

  • Gen 43:1-3
    3 verses
    87%

    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.’

  • Gen 44:21-26
    6 verses
    85%

    21 Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me so that I may set my eyes on him.'"

    22 But we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves, his father will die.'"

    23 But you said to your servants, 'If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.'

    24 When we went back to your servant, my father, we told him the words of my lord.

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

    26 But we said, 'We cannot go down unless our youngest brother is with us. For we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'

  • Gen 42:32-34
    3 verses
    80%

    32 "We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan."'

    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."'

  • Gen 43:20
    78%

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

  • Gen 43:13-15
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Gen 42:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 And he said, 'Look, I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.'

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

  • Gen 42:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    19 If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

    20 Then bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified, and you will not die.' And they did so.

  • Gen 42:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15 This is how you will be tested: By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.'

    16 Send one of you to bring your brother; the rest of you will stay in prison. This will test whether your words are true. If not, then by the life of Pharaoh, you are spies.'

  • Gen 43:22
    75%

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

  • Gen 37:27
    74%

    27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed.

  • Gen 44:32-34
    3 verses
    73%

    32 For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'

    33 Now, therefore, please let your servant remain here as a slave to my lord in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

    34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come upon my father.

  • Gen 42:10
    73%

    10 But they said to him, 'No, my lord! Your servants have come to buy food.