Genesis 44:19
17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
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
- My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
- KJV
- My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
- WEB
- My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
- ASV
- My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
- DARBY
- My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
- BLB
- My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Is there for you⁺ a father or a brother?’
- ÅB
- Min herre spurte sine tjenere: Har dere far eller bror?
- OTB
- Min herre spurte sine tjenere, ‘Har dere en far eller en bror?’
- B1930
- Min herre spurte sine tjenere: Har I far eller bror?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 43:7
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?
Read in contextGenesis 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 spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
Read in contextGenesis 42:7–10
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Read in context