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Genesis 43:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then Judah said to his father Israel, ‘Send the boy with me. We will be on our way so that we may live and not die #– #neither we, nor you, nor our dependents.

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Listen,’ he went on, ‘I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us so that we will live and not die.’


Let Reuben live and not die though his people become few.


I proclaimed a fast  by the River Ahava,  so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.


But one of his servants responded, ‘Please, let messengers take five of the horses that are left in the city. Their fate is like the entire Israelite community who will die,  so let’s send them and see.’


If we say, “Let’s go into the city,” we will die there because the famine is in the city, but if we sit here, we will also die. So now, come on. Let’s surrender to the Arameans’ camp.  If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.’


I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder  into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it.


Honour your father and your mother  so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.


Therefore don’t be afraid. I will take care of you and your children.’  And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.


along with all Joseph’s family, his brothers, and his father’s family. Only their dependents, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.


You are also commanded to tell them, “Do this: take carts from the land of Egypt for your dependents and your wives and bring your father here.


We told him, “We cannot go down unless our younger brother goes with us. If our younger brother isn’t with us, we cannot see the man.”


But Jacob answered, ‘My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left.  If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my grey hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’


and we answered my lord, “We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age.  The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.”





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