Genesis 44:23

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

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 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, ’

Cross References

• 1. 44:23 ch. 43:3