Genesis 43:6
4 If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
5 But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’”
“Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?”
7 They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”
8 And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?”
- KJV
- And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
- WEB
- Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”
- ASV
- And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
- DARBY
- And Israel said, Why did ye deal [so] ill with me [as] to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
- BLB
- And Israel said, “Why have you⁺ done evil to me, to tell the man you had yet to you⁺ a brother?”
- ÅB
- De svarte: Mannen spurte oss nøye ut både om oss og om vår slekt og sa: Lever deres far enda? Har dere noen bror? Og vi svarte ham etter som han spurte; kunne vi vel vite at han ville si: Kom her ned med deres bror?
- OTB
- Israel spurte: «Hvorfor brakte dere denne vanskeligheten over meg ved å fortelle mannen at dere hadde en annen bror?»
- B1930
- De svarte: Mannen spurte oss nøie ut både om oss og om vår ætt og sa: Lever eders far ennu? Har I nogen bror? Og vi svarte ham efter som han spurte; kunde vi vel vite at han vilde si: Kom her ned med eders bror?