Genesis 42:4 - New Revised Standard Version

⁴ But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he feared that harm might come to him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ But Benjamin, Joseph's [full] brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers; for he said, Lest perhaps some harm or injury should befall him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him.

Common English Bible

⁴ However, Jacob didn’t send Joseph’s brother Benjamin along with his brothers because he thought something bad might happen to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brothers, "Lest perhaps he may suffer harm on the journey."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.

Genesis 42:4 Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 3:22

Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

Genesis 35:24

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 42:3

So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

Genesis 42:38

But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should come to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Genesis 43:14

may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, so that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Genesis 43:29

Then he looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!”