Genesis 43:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’ ”

Cross References

Genesis 42:15

Here is how you shall be tested: as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here!

Genesis 42:20

and bring your youngest brother to me. Thus your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they agreed to do so.

Genesis 42:38

But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should come to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Genesis 43:3

But Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

Genesis 43:4

If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food,

Genesis 43:6

Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly as to tell the man that you had another brother?”

Genesis 44:23

Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.’

Genesis 44:25

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

Genesis 44:26

we said, ‘We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother goes with us will we go down, for we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.