Genesis 42:4

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Genesis 42:4

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”

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KJV

King James Version

But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

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WEB

World English Bible

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

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ASV

American Standard Version

But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Genesis 42

² “Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

³ So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

⁴ But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”

⁵ So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.

⁶ Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

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