OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 3

Genesis 43:3

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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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Genesis 43:1–6

1

The famine was severe in the land.

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.”

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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.’”

6

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

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