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Genesis 43:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Judah 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. "

Genesis 43:8

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

7 They 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’?”

8 Judah 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.

9 I’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;

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

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Genesis 43:1

"The famine was severe in the land."

Genesis 43:2

"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.”"

Genesis 43:3

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

Genesis 43:4

"If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;"

Genesis 43:5

"but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”"

Genesis 43:6

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

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