Genesis 43:4
New International Version
If you will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

New Living Translation
If you send Benjamin with us, we will go down and buy more food.

English Standard Version
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.

Berean Standard Bible
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

King James Bible
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:

New King James Version
If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.

New American Standard Bible
If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.

NASB 1995
“If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.

NASB 1977
“If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.

Legacy Standard Bible
If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.

Amplified Bible
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down [to Egypt] and buy you food.

Christian Standard Bible
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

American Standard Version
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
If you send our brother with us, we will go down and we will buy grain for us.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
If, then, thou send our brother with us, we will go down, and buy thee food;

Douay-Rheims Bible
If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out together, and will buy necessaries for thee.

English Revised Version
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you let our brother go with us, we'll go and buy food for you.

Good News Translation
If you are willing to send our brother with us, we will go and buy food for you.

International Standard Version
So if you send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy some food.

JPS Tanakh 1917
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food;

Literal Standard Version
if you are sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for you food,

Majority Standard Bible
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

New American Bible
If you are willing to let our brother go with us, we will go down to buy food for you.

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

New Revised Standard Version
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food;

New Heart English Bible
If you�ll send our brother with us, we�ll go down and buy you food,

Webster's Bible Translation
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:

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

Young's Literal Translation
if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Return to Egypt with Benjamin
3But Judah replied, “The man solemnly warned us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’ 4If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you. 5But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’ ”…

Cross References
Genesis 43:3
But Judah replied, "The man solemnly warned us, 'You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.'

Genesis 43:5
But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, 'You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.'"


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Genesis 43
1. Jacob is persuaded to send Benjamin.
15. Joseph entertains his brothers.
19. They discover their fears to the steward.
26. Joseph makes them a feast.














Verses 4, 5. - If thou wilt send - literally, if thou art sending, i.e. if thou art agreeable to send (cf. Genesis 24:42, 49; Judges 6:36) - our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: but (literally, and) if thou wilt not send him (a similar form of expression to the above, the two words יֵשׁ, being, and אַיִן, not being, including the substantive verb, and being conjoined with a participle for the finite verb), we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. Judah's peremptory language receives sufficient justification from the fact that he believed the Egyptian governor to be in thorough earnest when he declared that without Benjamin they should sue a second time in vain.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you will send
מְשַׁלֵּ֥חַ (mə·šal·lê·aḥ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

our brother
אָחִ֖ינוּ (’ā·ḥî·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 251: A brother, )

with us,
אִתָּ֑נוּ (’it·tā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

we will go down
נֵרְדָ֕ה (nê·rə·ḏāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend

and buy
וְנִשְׁבְּרָ֥ה (wə·niš·bə·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural
Strong's 7666: To deal in grain

food
אֹֽכֶל׃ (’ō·ḵel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 400: Food

for you.
לְךָ֖ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew


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