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Genesis 44:25

Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’

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Parallel Translations

  • WEB World English Bible

    Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’

  • KJV King James Version

    And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food.

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Cross-references (2)

Passages linked to Genesis 44:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Genesis 43:2 When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”
  • Genesis 43:5 but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’ ”

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And our father said,.... After some time, when the…

And our father said,.... After some time, when the corn was almost consumed they had bought in Egypt:

go again, and buy us a little food; that may suffice fill the famine is over; see Gen 43:1.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

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