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If you send[a] our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy food for you. But if you will not send him, we won’t go down there because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”

Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble[b] on me by telling[c] the man you had one more brother?”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 43:4 tn Heb “if there is you sending,” that is, “if you send.”
  2. Genesis 43:6 tn The verb may even have a moral connotation here, “Why did you do evil to me?”
  3. Genesis 43:6 tn The infinitive construct here explains how they brought trouble on Jacob.