Genesis 44:23
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
Genesis 44:23 in other translations
| BSB | But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’ |
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| WEB | You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’ |
| ASV | And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. |
| YLT | and thou sayest unto thy servants, If your young brother come not down with you, ye add not to see my face. |
| DARBY | And thou saidst to thy servants, Unless your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. |
| BBE | But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again. |
| Webster | And thou saidst to thy servants, Except your youngest brother shall come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. |
What does Genesis 44:23 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 44:16-34
16-34. Judah said, What shall we say?--This address needs no comment--consisting at first of short, broken sentences, as if, under the overwhelming force of the speaker's emotions, his utterance were choked, it becomes more free and copious by the effort of speaking, as he proceeds. Every word finds its way to the heart; and it may well be imagined that Benjamin, who stood there speechless like a victim about to be…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 44:18-34
Had Joseph been, as Judah supposed him, an utter stranger to the family, he could not but be wrought upon by his powerful reasonings. But neither Jacob nor Benjamin need an intercessor with Joseph; for he himself loved them. Judah's faithful cleaving to Benjamin, now, in his distress, was recompensed long afterwards by the tribe of Benjamin keeping with the tribe of Judah, when the other tribes deserted it. The…
Genesis 44:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 44:23
- Genesis 43:3
And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
- Genesis 43:5
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
- Genesis 42:15-20
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. And he put them all together into ward three days. And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God: …
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Context
- Genesis 44:22
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
- Genesis 44:23
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
- Genesis 44:24
And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis 44:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y dijiste á tus siervos: Si vuestro hermano menor no descendiere con vosotros, no veáis más mi rostro. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et tu dis à tes serviteurs: Si votre jeune frère ne descend pas avec vous, vous ne reverrez pas ma face. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Da sprachst du zu deinen Knechten: Wenn euer jüngster Bruder nicht mit euch herabkommt, so sollt ihr mein Angesicht nicht mehr sehen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et dixisti servis tuis: Nisi venerit frater vester minimus vobiscum, non videbitis amplius faciem meam. |