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Genesis 43:6

World English Bible

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

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Genesis 43:6 in other translations

And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

Genesis 43:6 · American Standard Version

Genesis 43:6 in context

  1. 4If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;
  2. 5but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’ ”
  3. 6Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”
  4. 7They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’ ”
  5. 8Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.