Genesis 43:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?

Cross References

Genesis 43:5

But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother is not with you.

Genesis 43:7

And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?

Exodus 14:11

And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?