Genesis 43:10 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁰ for if we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ for except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ For if we had not lingered like this, surely by now we would have returned the second time.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ for except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ If we hadn’t waited so long, we would’ve returned twice by now.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ If a delay had not intervened, by now we would have returned here a second time."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ 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 forth and set 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 down to the man a present, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Genesis 43:9

I will be surety for him; of my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame for ever;