Genesis 43:4

World English Bible (2000)

If you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you food,

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  • Gen 43:5-10
    6 verses
    89%

    5but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"

    6Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"

    7They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"

    8Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

    9I'll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,

    10for if we hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now."

  • Gen 43:1-3
    3 verses
    87%

    1The famine was severe in the land.

    2It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."

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

  • Gen 44:21-26
    6 verses
    85%

    21You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

    22We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

    23You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'

    24It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

    25Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

    26We said, 'We can't 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.'

  • Gen 42:32-34
    3 verses
    80%

    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.'

    33The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

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

  • Gen 43:20
    78%

    20and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.

  • Gen 43:13-15
    3 verses
    77%

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

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

    15The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

  • Gen 42:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

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

  • Gen 42:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    19If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

    20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.

  • Gen 42:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

    16Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."

  • Gen 43:22
    75%

    22We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."

  • Gen 37:27
    74%

    27Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

  • Gen 44:32-34
    3 verses
    73%

    32For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'

    33Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

    34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?--lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

  • Gen 42:10
    73%

    10They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.