◄ Genesis 43:6 ►
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Good News Translation
Jacob said, "Why did you cause me so much trouble by telling the man that you had another brother?"

New Revised Standard Version
Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly as to tell the man that you had another brother?”

Contemporary English Version
Jacob asked, "Why did you cause me so much trouble by telling the governor you had another brother?"

New American Bible
Israel demanded, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man that you had another brother?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery, in that you told him you had also another brother.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery, in that you told him you had also another brother.

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Context
The Return to Egypt with Benjamin
…5But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have often said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without your youngest brother. 6Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery, in that you told him you had also another brother.7But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you?…
Cross References
Genesis 43:5
But if thou wilt not, we will not go: for the man, as we have often said, declared unto us, saying: You shall not see my face without your youngest brother.

Genesis 43:7
But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you?

Genesis 43:5
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