OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 24

Genesis 44:24

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When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

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Genesis 44:21–27

21

You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’

22

We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

23

You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’

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When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

25

Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’

26

We said, ‘We can’t go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man’s face, unless our youngest brother is with us.’

27

Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

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