◄ Genesis 44:19 ►
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Good News Translation
Sir, you asked us, 'Do you have a father or another brother?'

New Revised Standard Version
My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father or a brother?’

Contemporary English Version
You asked us if our father was still alive and if we had any more brothers.

New American Bible
My lord asked his servants, ‘Have you a father, or another brother?’

Douay-Rheims Bible
My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother.

Genesis 42:7-10 And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life. . . .

Genesis 43:7,29 But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you? . . .

Context
Judah Pleads for Benjamin
18Then Juda coming nearer, said boldly: I beseech thee, my lord, let thy servant speak a word in thy ears, and be not angry with thy servant: for after Pharao thou art. 19My lord. Thou didst ask thy servants the first time: Have you a father or a brother.20And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly.…
Cross References
Genesis 43:7
But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you?

Genesis 44:20
And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly.

Genesis 44:18
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