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.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 43:2 in context
Genesis 43:1–5
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The famine was severe in the land.
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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.”
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Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’
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If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;
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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.’”
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