Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’ ”
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Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’ ”
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And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
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And bring your youngest brother unto me; then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are upright men; so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.'
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Passages linked to Genesis 42:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 34:10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
- Genesis 34:21 “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters to us for wives, and let’s give them our daughters.
- 1 Kings 10:15 in addition to that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.
- Ezekiel 17:4 He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 42:34 And bring your youngest brother unto me:…
Gen 42:34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye [are] no spies, but [that] ye [are] true [men: so] will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
Ver. 34. See Gen 42:9; Gen 42:11; Gen 42:13; Gen 42:19, &c
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he said, my son shall not go down…
And he said, my son shall not go down with you,.... He gives a peremptory denial; this was his then present resolution and determination:
for his brother is dead; meaning Joseph, Benjamin's own brother by father and mother's side; him he supposed to be dead, such circumstances being related and produced, which made it highly probable, and he had not heard anything of him for twenty two years:
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and he is left alone; Benjamin being the only surviving child of his dearly beloved Rachel, as he thought:
if mischief befall him by the way in which ye go; that is, to Egypt, whether by thieves and robbers, or by the fatigue of the journey, or by any means whatever, so that he loses his life. All the Targums interpret this mischief of death:
then shall ye bring down my gray heirs with sorrow to the grave; the sense is, should this be the case he should never lift up his head, or have any more comfort in this world, but should pass his time with continual sorrow until his gray head was laid in the grave, or till he came to the state of the dead.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain And you may, &c. Joseph had said, (ver. 20,)…
And you may, &c. Joseph had said, (ver. 20,) and you may not die, which they thus interpret. (Haydock)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 34. shall traffick in the land] The Vulg. paraphrases…
34. shall traffick in the land] The Vulg. paraphrases ac deinceps quae vultis emendi habeatis licentiam.
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