Genesis 44:23

Plain English Version

Then you said to us, ‘You mob can only come back here if you bring your youngest brother with you.’ ”

Cross References

Genesis 43:3

But Jacob’s son Judah said, “You know that we can’t go back to Egypt country without our youngest brother Benjamin. That man that is in charge of Egypt, he will not let us do that. Last time we went to Egypt, that man talked strongly to us, and he said, ‘You can only come back here if you bring your youngest brother with you.’ ”

Genesis 43:5

But if you will not let Benjamin go with us, then we will not go to Egypt country, because that man said to us, ‘You can only come back here if you bring your youngest brother with you.’ ”

Genesis 44:22

But we said, ‘Sir, we can’t take that young man away from his father. If we do that, his father will be so sad that he will die.’

Genesis 44:24

Judah kept on talking to Joseph. He said, “Sir, we went back home to our father, and we told him those things that you said.