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Genesis 44:23

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23 Then you said to your servants, 1'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.'
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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 ) .

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 44:23 In-Context

21 Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
22 We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
23 Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.'
24 "When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25 And when our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food,'

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