Genesis 44:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and thou sayest unto thy servants, If your young brother come not down with you, ye add not to see my face.

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  • Gen 43:3 : 3 And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, `The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother `being' with you;
  • Gen 43:5 : 5 and if thou art not sending -- we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother `being' with you.'
  • Gen 42:15-20 : 15 by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this -- except by your young brother coming hither; 16 send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not -- Pharaoh liveth! surely ye `are' spies;' 17 and he removeth them unto charge three days. 18 And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear! 19 if ye `are' right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn `for' the famine of your houses, 20 and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;' and they do so.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 44:24-27
    4 verses
    88%

    24`And it cometh to pass, that we have come up unto thy servant my father, that we declare to him the words of my lord;

    25and our father saith, Turn back, buy for us a little food,

    26and we say, We are not able to go down; if our young brother is with us, then we have gone down; for we are not able to see the man's face, and our young brother not with us.

    27`And thy servant my father saith unto us, Ye -- ye have known that two did my wife bare to me,

  • Gen 43:2-8
    7 verses
    87%

    2and it cometh to pass, when they have finished eating the corn which they brought from Egypt, that their father saith unto them, `Turn back, buy for us a little food.'

    3And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, `The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother `being' with you;

    4if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,

    5and if thou art not sending -- we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother `being' with you.'

    6And Israel saith, `Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'

    7and they say, `The man asked diligently concerning us, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye a brother? and we declare to him according to the tenor of these things; do we certainly know that he will say, Bring down your brother?'

    8And Judah saith unto Israel his father, `Send the youth with me, and we arise, and go, and live, and do not die, both we, and thou, and our infants.

  • Gen 44:17-22
    6 verses
    85%

    17and he saith, `Far be it from me to do this; the man in whose hand the cup hath been found, he becometh my servant; and ye, go ye up in peace unto your father.'

    18And Judah cometh nigh unto him, and saith, `O, my lord, let thy servant speak, I pray thee, a word in the ears of my lord, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant -- for thou art as Pharaoh.

    19My lord hath asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father or brother?

    20and we say unto my lord, We have a father, an aged one, and a child of old age, a little one; and his brother died, and he is left alone of his mother, and his father hath loved him.

    21`And thou sayest unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, and I set mine eye upon him;

    22and we say unto my lord, The youth is not able to leave his father, when he hath left his father, then he hath died;

  • Gen 42:13-15
    3 verses
    82%

    13and they say, `Thy servants `are' twelve brethren; we `are' sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and lo, the young one `is' with our father to-day, and the one is not.'

    14And Joseph saith unto them, `This `is' that which I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye `are' spies,

    15by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this -- except by your young brother coming hither;

  • Gen 42:20
    81%

    20and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;' and they do so.

  • Gen 45:12-13
    2 verses
    80%

    12`And lo, your eyes are seeing, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that `it is' my mouth which is speaking unto you;

    13and ye have declared to my father all my honour in Egypt, and all that ye have seen, and ye have hasted, and have brought down my father hither.'

  • Gen 44:29-34
    6 verses
    79%

    29when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.

    30`And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),

    31then it hath come to pass when he seeth that the youth is not, that he hath died, and thy servants have brought down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to sheol;

    32for thy servant obtained the youth by surety from my father, saying, If I bring him not in unto thee -- then I have sinned against my father all the days.

    33`And now, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the youth a servant to my lord, and the youth goeth up with his brethren,

    34for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

  • Gen 42:32-34
    3 verses
    79%

    32we `are' twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one `is' to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.

    33`And the man, the lord of the land, saith unto us, By this I know that ye `are' right men -- one of your brethren leave with me, and `for' the famine of your houses take ye and go,

    34and bring your young brother unto me, and I know that ye `are' not spies, but ye `are' right men; your brother I give to you, and ye trade with the land.'

  • Gen 42:38
    76%

    38and he saith, `My son doth not go down with you, for his brother `is' dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.'

  • Gen 43:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13`And take your brother, and rise, turn back unto the man;

    14and God Almighty give to you mercies before the man, so that he hath sent to you your other brother and Benjamin; and I, when I am bereaved -- I am bereaved.'

  • Gen 45:9
    76%

    9`Haste, and go up unto my father, then ye have said to him, Thus said Joseph thy son, God hath set me for lord to all Egypt; come down unto me, stay not,

  • Gen 46:31
    75%

    31And Joseph saith unto his brethren, and unto the house of his father, `I go up, and declare to Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and the house of my father who `are' in the land of Canaan have come in unto me;

  • Gen 44:7
    75%

    7and they say unto him, `Why doth my lord speak according to these words? far be it from thy servants to do according to this word;

  • Gen 47:5
    74%

    5And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph, saying, `Thy father and thy brethren have come unto thee:

  • Gen 50:18
    74%

    18And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, `Lo, we `are' to thee for servants.'

  • Gen 45:4
    74%

    4And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `Come nigh unto me, I pray you,' and they come nigh; and he saith, `I `am' Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt;

  • Gen 45:17
    74%

    17and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `Say unto thy brethren, This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, enter ye the land of Canaan,

  • Gen 45:24
    74%

    24And he sendeth his brethren away, and they go; and he saith unto them, `Be not angry in the way.'