Genesis 43:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 42:38 : 38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left: if harm befalls him on the journey in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
  • Gen 44:26 : 26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 43:2-4
    3 verses
    90%

    2And it came to pass, when they had consumed the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food.

    3And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man solemnly warned us, saying, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.

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

  • Gen 44:21-27
    7 verses
    87%

    21And you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him.

    22And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

    23And you said to your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.

    24And it came to pass when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

    25And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

    26And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.

    27And your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons:

  • Gen 43:6-10
    5 verses
    79%

    6And Israel said, Why did you deal so wrongfully with me, as to tell the man whether you had yet a brother?

    7And they said, The man asked us specifically about our state and kindred, saying, Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? And we answered him according to these words: could we know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

    8And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, you, and also our little ones.

    9I will be surety for him; from my hand you shall require him: if I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever:

    10For if we had not delayed, surely by now we would have returned this second time.

  • Gen 42:32-34
    3 verses
    77%

    32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

    33And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, Hereby shall I know that you are honest men; leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:

    34And bring your youngest brother to me: then shall I know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men: so will I deliver you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.

  • Gen 42:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15Hereby you shall be tested: By the life of Pharaoh you shall not go forth from here, except your youngest brother come here.

    16Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and you shall be kept in prison, that your words may be tested, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.

  • Gen 43:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    13Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man:

    14And may God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

    15And the men took that gift, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

  • Gen 44:30-34
    5 verses
    74%

    30Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

    31It shall come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and your servants shall bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

    32For your servant became a guarantee for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.

    33Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant stay instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.

    34For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad is not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come upon my father.

  • Gen 42:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

    19If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison: go, carry grain for the famine of your houses:

    20But bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your words be proven true, and you shall not die. And they did so.

    21And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.

  • Gen 42:38
    74%

    38And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left: if harm befalls him on the journey in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

  • Gen 42:4
    74%

    4But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers; for he said, Lest perhaps harm befall him.

  • Exod 33:15
    73%

    15And he said to him, If your presence does not go with me, do not carry us up from here.

  • Gen 45:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

    13And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen; and you shall hurry and bring my father down here.

  • Gen 42:13
    71%

    13And they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.

  • Gen 45:24
    71%

    24So he sent his brothers away, and they departed; and he said to them, See that you do not quarrel on the way.

  • Jer 42:13
    71%

    13But if you say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,

  • Gen 42:2
    71%

    2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: go down there, and buy for us from there; that we may live, and not die.

  • Gen 46:31
    70%

    31And Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's household, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.