If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;
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If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;
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If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
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If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with…
Gen 43:4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
Ver. 4. And buy thee food,] q.d., Thou art as much concerned as any of us, and more; because thou art master of the family.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But if thou wilt not send him, we will…
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down,.... This they said not as undutiful, and from a spirit of rebellion and disobedience to their father, or of stubbornness and obstinacy, but because they durst not go down, nor could they with any safety; they might expect to be taken up as spies, and put to death as they were threatened; and besides, it would be in vain, and to no purpose, since there was no likelihood of succeeding, or of getting any provision:
for the man said unto us, ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you; which they repeat both for the confirmation of it, and as an apology for themselves, to clear them from any charge of unfaithfulness.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 4, 5. If thou wilt send literally, if…
Vers. 4, 5. If thou wilt send literally, if thou art sending, i.e. if thou art agreeable to send (cf. Gen_24:42, Gen_24:49; Jud_1:6:36) our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: but (literally, and) if thou wilt not send him (a similar form of expression to the above, the two words vye, being, and yia, not being, including the substantive verb, and being conjoined with a participle for the finite verb), we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. Judah"s peremptory language receives sufficient justification from the fact that he believed the Egyptian governor to be in thorough earnest when he declared that without Benjamin they should sue a second time in vain.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.