Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest mischief may befall him.
New American Standard Bible
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother
King James Version
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
Holman Bible
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought, “Something might happen to him.”
International Standard Version
Jacob would not send Joseph's brother Benjamin to accompany them, because he was saying, "I'm afraid that he'll come to some kind of harm."
A Conservative Version
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers, for he said, Lest perhaps harm befall him.
American Standard Version
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest Peradventure harm befall him.
Amplified
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s [younger] brother, with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that some harm or injury may come to him.”
Bible in Basic English
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.
Julia Smith Translation
And Benjamin, Josephs brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest harm should meet him.
King James 2000
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brothers; for he said, Lest perhaps mischief befall him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, for {he feared harm would come to him}.
Modern King James verseion
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers. For he said, Lest perhaps mischief happen to him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for Benjamin, Joseph's brother, would not Jacob send with his other brethren: for he said, "Some misfortune might happen him."
NET Bible
But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, "What if some accident happens to him?"
New Heart English Bible
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."
The Emphasized Bible
but, Benjamin, Joseph's own brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren, - for he said, Lest there befall him any mischief.
Webster
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren: for he said, Lest perhaps mischief shall befall him.
World English Bible
But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."
Youngs Literal Translation
and Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob hath not sent with his brethren, for he said, 'Lest mischief meet him.'
Themes
Children » Parents, duty to » Partiality toward
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 42:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph's Brothers Go To Egypt For Food
3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy grain out of Egypt. 4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest mischief may befall him. 5 So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Cross References
Genesis 42:38
But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
Genesis 3:22
And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever ...!
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 33:1-2
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants:
Genesis 35:16-19
And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.
Genesis 43:14
And the Almighty God give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin! And I, if I be bereaved of children, am bereaved.
Genesis 43:29
And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother of whom ye spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to thee, my son!
Genesis 44:20-22
And we said to my lord, We have an aged father, and a child born to him in his old age, yet young; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.
Genesis 44:27-34
And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;