Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If you will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you. New Living Translation If you send Benjamin with us, we will go down and buy more food. English Standard Version If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food. Berean Standard Bible If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you. King James Bible If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: New King James Version If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food. New American Standard Bible If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food. NASB 1995 “If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food. NASB 1977 “If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food. Legacy Standard Bible If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food. Amplified Bible If you will send our brother with us, we will go down [to Egypt] and buy you food. Christian Standard Bible If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you. Holman Christian Standard Bible If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you. American Standard Version If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: English Revised Version If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: GOD'S WORD® Translation If you let our brother go with us, we'll go and buy food for you. Good News Translation If you are willing to send our brother with us, we will go and buy food for you. International Standard Version So if you send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy some food. Majority Standard Bible If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you. NET Bible If you send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy food for you. New Heart English Bible If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food, Webster's Bible Translation If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: World English Bible If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food; Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionif you are sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for you food, Young's Literal Translation if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee food, Smith's Literal Translation If thou art sending our brother with us we will go down and will buy food for thee. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleIf therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out together, and will buy necessaries for thee. Catholic Public Domain Version If therefore you are willing to send him with us, we will travel together, and we will buy necessities for you. New American Bible If you are willing to let our brother go with us, we will go down to buy food for you. New Revised Standard Version If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleIf you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy grain for ourselves; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated If you send our brother with us, we will go down and we will buy grain for us. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food; Brenton Septuagint Translation If, then, thou send our brother with us, we will go down, and buy thee food; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Return to Egypt with Benjamin…3But Judah replied, “The man solemnly warned us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’ 4If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you. 5But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’ ”… Cross References Genesis 42:20 Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented. Genesis 42:34 But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.’” Genesis 44:23 But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’ Genesis 42:15-16 And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here. / Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!” Genesis 42:38 But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.” Genesis 44:26 But we answered, ‘We cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.’ Genesis 45:9-11 Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay. / You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own. / And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’ Genesis 46:3-4 “I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. / I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will surely bring you back. And Joseph’s own hands will close your eyes.” Genesis 47:29-31 When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt, / but when I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me with them.” Joseph answered, “I will do as you have requested.” / “Swear to me,” Jacob said. So Joseph swore to him, and Israel bowed in worship at the head of his bed. Genesis 50:24-25 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” / And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.” Exodus 1:8-10 Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt. / “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us. / Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.” Exodus 3:7-10 The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings. / I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. / And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them. ... Acts 7:9-14 Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him / and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household. / Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food. ... Acts 7:25-29 He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not. / The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’ / But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us? ... Acts 7:34 I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’ Treasury of Scripture If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food: no references listed for this verse. Jump to Previous Buy Food Sending We'll Wilt You'llJump to Next Buy Food Sending We'll Wilt You'llGenesis 43 1. Jacob is persuaded to send Benjamin.15. Joseph entertains his brothers. 19. They discover their fears to the steward. 26. Joseph makes them a feast. If you will send This phrase indicates a conditional statement, reflecting a negotiation or a plea. The Hebrew root here is "שָׁלַח" (shalach), meaning "to send" or "to let go." In the context of Genesis, this reflects the brothers' dependence on their father Jacob's decision. It highlights the patriarchal authority in the family structure of ancient Israel, where the father's consent was crucial for any significant action. This also underscores the theme of obedience and submission to authority, which is a recurring motif in the Bible. our brother with us we will go down and buy food for you Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Ifאִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not you will send מְשַׁלֵּ֥חַ (mə·šal·lê·aḥ) Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out our brother אָחִ֖ינוּ (’ā·ḥî·nū) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural Strong's 251: A brother, ) with us, אִתָּ֑נוּ (’it·tā·nū) Preposition | first person common plural Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among we will go down נֵרְדָ֕ה (nê·rə·ḏāh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend and buy וְנִשְׁבְּרָ֥ה (wə·niš·bə·rāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural Strong's 7666: To deal in grain food אֹֽכֶל׃ (’ō·ḵel) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 400: Food for you. לְךָ֖ (lə·ḵā) Preposition | second person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew Links Genesis 43:4 NIVGenesis 43:4 NLT Genesis 43:4 ESV Genesis 43:4 NASB Genesis 43:4 KJV Genesis 43:4 BibleApps.com Genesis 43:4 Biblia Paralela Genesis 43:4 Chinese Bible Genesis 43:4 French Bible Genesis 43:4 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 43:4 If you'll send our brother with us (Gen. 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