Context 13Then they tore their clothes, and when each man loaded his donkey, they returned to the city. 14When Judah and his brothers came to Josephs house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him. 15Joseph said to them, What is this deed that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed practice divination? 16So Judah said, What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are my lords slaves, both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been found. 17But he said, Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose possession the cup has been found, he shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father. 18Then Judah approached him, and said, Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lords ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh. 19My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father or a brother? 20We said to my lord, We have an old father and a little child of his old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him. 21Then you said to your servants, Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes on him. 22But we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die. 23You said to your servants, however, Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again. 24Thus it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25Our father said, Go back, buy us a little food. 26But we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the mans face unless our youngest brother is with us. 27Your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons; 28and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces, and I have not seen him since. 29If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow. 30Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lads life, 31when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow. 32For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him back to you, then let me bear the blame before my father forever. 33Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers. 34For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with mefor fear that I see the evil that would overtake my father? Parallel Verses American Standard VersionThen they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. Douay-Rheims Bible Then they rent their garments, and loading their asses again, returned into the town. Darby Bible Translation Then they rent their clothes, and loaded every man his ass, and they returned to the city. English Revised Version Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. Webster's Bible Translation Then they rent their clothes, and loaded every man his ass, and returned to the city. World English Bible Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city. Young's Literal Translation and they rend their garments, and each ladeth his ass, and they turn back to the city. Library Select Masterpieces of Biblical LiteratureThe Modern Reader's Bible A Series of Works from the Sacred Scriptures Presented in Modern Literary Form SELECT MASTERPIECES OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by RICHARD G. MOULTON, M.A. (CAMB.), Ph.D. (PENN.) Professor of Literature in English in the University of Chicago New York The MacMillan Company London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd. 1902 Copyright, 1897, By THe MacMillan Company. Set up and electrotyped September, 1897. Reprinted December, 1897; August, 1898; February, … Various—Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Genesis Links Genesis 44:13 NIV • Genesis 44:13 NLT • Genesis 44:13 ESV • Genesis 44:13 NASB • Genesis 44:13 KJV • Genesis 44:13 Bible Apps • Genesis 44:13 Parallel • Bible Hub |