Genesis 43:7

They answered, “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”

Genesis 43:3

But Judah said to him, “The man specifically warned us: ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’

Genesis 42:13

But they replied, “We, your servants, were 12 brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no longer living.”

Genesis 43:27

He asked if they were well, and he said, “How is your elderly father that you told me about? Is he still alive?”

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Summary

And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

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Bible References

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Genesis 44:19
My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

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