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Genesis 42:4

American Standard Version

But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him.

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Genesis 42:4 in other translations

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

Genesis 42:4 · World English Bible

Genesis 42:4 in context

  1. 2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
  2. 3And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.
  3. 4But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him.
  4. 5And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
  5. 6And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.