Genesis 43:7

New American Bible - revised edition

They answered: “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still living? Do you have another brother?’ We answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

Cross References

Genesis 42:11

All of us are sons of the same man. We are honest men; your servants have never been spies.”

Genesis 42:13

“We your servants,” they said, “are twelve brothers, sons of a certain man in Canaan; but the youngest one is at present with our father, and the other one is no more.”

Genesis 43:27

After inquiring how they were, he asked them, “And how is your aged father, of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?”

Genesis 43:3

But Judah replied: “The man strictly warned us, ‘You shall not see me unless your brother is with you.’

Genesis 43:6

Israel demanded, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man that you had another brother?”

Genesis 44:19

My lord asked his servants, ‘Have you a father, or another brother?’