Genesis 43:4 (BSB)
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
From Genesis 43. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Genesis 43:4
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 43:1-10: Here, 1. Jacob urges his sons to go and buy more corn in Egypt, Gen 43:1, Gen 43:2. The famine continued; and the corn they had bought was all spent, for it is meat that perisheth. Jacob, as a good master of a family, is in care to provide for those of his own house food convenient; and shall not God provide for his children, for the household of faith?
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 43:4: But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down,.... This they said not as undutiful, and from a spirit of rebellion and disobedience to their father, or of stubbornness and obstinacy, but because they durst not go down, nor could they with any safety; they might expect to be taken up as spies, and put to death as they were threatened; and...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Genesis 43:3-5: Gen 43:3-5 Judah then declared, that they would not go there again unless their father sent Benjamin with them; for the man (Joseph) had solemnly protested (העד העד) that they should not see his face without their youngest brother. Judah undertook the consultation with his father about Benjamin’s going, because Reuben, the eldest son, had already been refused, and Levi, who followed Reuben and Simeon...