Genesis 43:4

4 If you will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

Genesis 43:4 in Other Translations

4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:

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

4 If you send Benjamin with us, we will go down and buy more food.

4 If you're ready to release our brother to go with us, we'll go down and get you food.

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

Genesis 43:4 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 43:4

If thou wilt send our brother with us
Give orders for his going with us, and put him under our care: we will go down and buy thee food;
signifying, on the above condition, that they were ready and willing to take a journey into Egypt, and buy provisions for him and his family, otherwise not.

Genesis 43:4 In-Context

2 So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

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

4 If you will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

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

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

Cross References

• 1. S Genesis 42:2