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Genesis 43:4
If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food:
Genesis 43:4 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 43:4 in other translations
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;
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In context
1 Now the land was in bitter need of food.
2 And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.
3 And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.
4 If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food:
5 But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother is not with you.
6 And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?
7 And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?
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