Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.
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Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.
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Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
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take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man;
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Passages linked to Genesis 43:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 42:38 He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 43:13 Take also your brother, and arise, go…
Gen 43:13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
Ver. 13. Take also your brother.] Since there is no other remedy. But if I could otherwise do, he should never go. God doeth us good sometimes against our wills, and crosseth us with a blessing. The heathens could pray thus -
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“Great God, the good thou hast to give,
Whether we will’t or no,
Let’s still receive: no mischief thrive
To work our overthrow.”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And God Almighty give you mercy before the man,....…
And God Almighty give you mercy before the man,.... Who has the hearts of all men in his hands, kings, princes, governors, even those who are the most cruel and hardhearted, rough and severe in their tempers and dispositions, and such an one they had represented this man to be; one that had spoke roughly to them, and used them roughly: Jacob therefore sent him a present to soften his mind, and now he puts up a prayer to God, and dismisses his sons with his good wishes for them, that God would incline the heart of the governor to show kindness to them, and let them have corn, nor use any of them ill: particularly:
that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin; release Simeon, and send him and Benjamin aiming with them when they returned:
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if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved; this he said, not as utterly despairing of their return, but as expressive of his patient submission to the divine will, be it as it may be.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Take also your brother
Take also your brother
"Take also Benjamin"
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go again
"return"
May God Almighty give you mercy before the man
The abstract noun "mercy" can be stated as the adjective "kind." AT: "May God Almighty cause the man to be kind to you" (See: Abstract Nouns)
your other brother
"Simeon"
If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved
"If I lose my children, then I lose my children." This means that Jacob knows he must accept whatever happens to his sons.
in their hand they took
Here "hand" refers to the entire person. AT: "they took" (See: Synecdoche)
went down to Egypt
It was common to use the phrase "went down" when speaking of traveling from Canaan to Egypt.
translationWords
brother
God
Almighty
mercy
Benjamin
Joseph (OT)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 43:13-14 Jacob finally entrusted his family’s future to God…
43:13-14 Jacob finally entrusted his family’s future to God Almighty, the divine title that stresses God’s power (see also 17:1; 28:3; 35:11; 48:3; 1 Kgs 19:10, 14; Rev 21:22).
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