but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
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but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
But if you will not send, we will not go down, because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother with you!’”
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’”
But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’”
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down; for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
But if thou wilt not send him, we wil not go downe: for the man said vnto vs, Looke me not in the face, except your brother be with you.
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.
and if thou art not sending -- we do not go down, for the man said unto us, Ye do not see my face without your brother `being' with you.'
and if you are not sending—we do not go down, for the man said to us, You do not see my face without your brother [being] with you.”
But if you do not send him, we will not go down. For the man said to us, 'You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.'”
But if you will not send, we will not go down, because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother with you!’”
but if thou do not send [him], we will not go down, for the man said to us, Ye shall not see my face, unless your brother be with you.
but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”
\\43:6\\And Israel said, Why dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
But if you won't send him, then we won't go, because the man was very clear, ‘I won't even see you unless your brother is with you.’”
And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?
but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down, for the man said unto us: Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.'
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וְאִם אֵינְךָ֥ מְשַׁלֵּ֖חַ לֹ֣א נֵרֵ֑ד כִּֽי הָאִ֞ישׁ אָמַ֤ר אֵלֵ֨ינוּ֙ לֹֽא תִרְא֣וּ פָנַ֔י בִּלְתִּ֖י אֲחִיכֶ֥ם אִתְּכֶֽם
but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
World English Bible · Public Domain
εἰ δέ μή ἀποστέλλω ὁ ἀδελφός ἐγώ μετά ἐγώ οὐ πορεύομαι ὁ γάρ ἄνθρωπος εἶπον ἐγώ λέγω οὐ ὁράω ἐγώ ὁ πρόσωπον ἐάν μή ὁ ἀδελφός σύ ὁ νέος μετά σύ εἰμί
but if you send not our brother with us, we will not go: for the man spoke to us, saying, You⌃ shall not see my face, unless your younger brother be with you.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְאִם לֵיתָךְ מְשַׁלַּח לָא נֵיחוֹת אֲרֵי גַּבְרָא אֲמַר לָנָא לָא תֶחֱזוּן אַפַּי אֶלָּהֵין כַּד אֲחוּכוֹן עִמְּכוֹן
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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְאִין לַיְיתָךְ מְשַׁדֵר לָא נֵיחוֹת אֲרוּם גַבְרָא אָמַר לָנָא לָא תֵיחְמוֹן סְבַר אַפַּיי בִּדְלֵית אֲחוּכוֹן עִמְכוֹן
but if thou wilt not send (him), we will not go down; for the man told us, You shall not see the sight of my face unless your brother be with you.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 15 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is biltîy (“except”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 43:5 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.