Genesis 43:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.”
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BSBPD
“If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Genesis 43:4 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 42:2“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
- Genesis 43:2So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
- Genesis 44:26But we answered, ‘We cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.’
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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