Parallel Verses
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."
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.
Darby Translation
But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest mischief may befall 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.
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
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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 So went Joseph's ten brethren down to buy corn in Egypt, 4 for Benjamin, Joseph's brother, would not Jacob send with his other brethren: for he said, "Some misfortune might happen him." 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among other that came, for there was dearth also in the land of Canaan.
Cross References
Genesis 42:38
And he said, "My son shall not go down with you. For his brother is dead, and he is left alone. Moreover, some misfortune might happen upon him by the way which ye go. And so should ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave."
Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, "Lo, Adam is become as it were one of us, in knowledge of good and evil. But now lest he stretch forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live ever -"
Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come on, let us build us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth."
Genesis 33:1-2
Jacob lift up his eyes and saw his brother Esau come, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Lea and unto Rachel and unto the two maidens.
Genesis 35:16-19
And they departed from Bethel, and when he was but a field breadth from Ephrata, Rachel began to travail. And in travailing she was in peril.
Genesis 43:14
And God almighty give you mercy in the sight of the man and send you your other brother and also Benjamin, and I will be as a man robbed of his children."
Genesis 43:29
And he lift up his eyes and beheld his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother of whom ye said unto me?" And said, "God be merciful unto thee my son."
Genesis 44:20-22
And we answered my lord, 'We have a father that is old, and a young lad which he begat in his age: and the brother of the said lad is dead, and he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loveth him.'
Genesis 44:27-34
Then said thy servant our father unto us, 'Ye know that my wife bare me two sons.