Genesis 44:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁶ we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ But we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we may not see the man's face except our youngest brother is with us.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us.

Common English Bible

²⁶ But we said, ‘We can’t go down. We will go down only if our youngest brother is with us. We won’t be able to gain an audience with the man without our youngest brother with us.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And we said to him: 'We cannot go. If our youngest brother descends with us, we will set out together. Otherwise, in his absence, we do not dare to see the face of the man.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And we said to him: We cannot go. If our youngest brother go down with us, we will set out together; otherwise, without him we dare not see the man's face.

Genesis 44:26 Cross References

Genesis 42:15

By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Genesis 44:12

And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

Genesis 44:25

And when our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food,’

Genesis 44:27

Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;

Luke 11:7

and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything’?