Here is how you shall be tested: as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here!
Genesis 44:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, so that I may set my eyes on him.’ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him. American Standard Version (1901) And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. Common English Bible You told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him.’ Catholic Public Domain Version And you said to your servants, 'Bring him to me, and I will set my eyes on him.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I will set my eyes on him. |
Here is how you shall be tested: as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here!
and bring your youngest brother to me. Thus your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they agreed to do so.
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!”
We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not pluck them up.
Now look, I have just released you today from the fetters on your hands. If you wish to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will take good care of you, but if you do not wish to come with me to Babylon, you need not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.
And though they go into captivity in front of their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes on them for harm and not for good.