Genesis 44:23

23 Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not again see my face.'

Genesis 44:23 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 44:23

And thou saidst unto thy servants
In answer to the representation of things made by them, and notwithstanding that: except your youngest brother come down with you, you shall see my face
no more;
which though not before related in the discourse, which passed between Joseph and his brethren, in express terms, yet might be justly inferred from what he said; nay, might be expressed in so many words, though not recorded, and as it seems plainly it was, as appears from ( Genesis 43:3 ) .

Genesis 44:23 In-Context

21 Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes upon him.'

22 Then we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father; if he should leave his father, then he would die.'

23 Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not again see my face.'

24 And it happened [that] we went up to your servant, my father, and told him the words of my lord.

25 And when our father said, 'Buy a little food for us,'