Genesis 43:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

for except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For if we had not lingered like this, surely by now we would have returned the second time.

American Standard Version (1901)

for except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.

Common English Bible

If we hadn’t waited so long, we would’ve returned twice by now.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

If a delay had not intervened, by now we would have returned here a second time."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If delay had not been made, we had been here again the second time.

Genesis 43:10 Cross References

Genesis 19:16

But he lingered, so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and left him outside the city.

Genesis 43:11

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry them down as a present to the man: a little balm and a little honey, gum, resin, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Genesis 43:9

I myself will be surety for him; you can hold me accountable for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.