You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'
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You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
But you said to your servants, ‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’
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You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'
But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’
But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
Then saydest thou vnto thy seruants, Except your yonger brother come downe with you, looke in my face no more.
And thou saidst to thy servants: Except your youngest brother come with you, you shall see my face no more.
and thou sayest unto thy servants, If your young brother come not down with you, ye add not to see my face.
and you say to your servants, If your young brother does not come down with you, you do not add to see my face.
Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'
But you said to your servants, ‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’
And thou saidst to thy servants, Unless your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
And thou saidst to thy servants, Except your youngest brother shall come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
But you told us, ‘If your youngest brother doesn't come with you, you won't see me again.’
But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.
And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַתֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אֶל עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ אִם לֹ֥א יֵרֵ֛ד אֲחִיכֶ֥ם הַקָּטֹ֖ן אִתְּכֶ֑ם לֹ֥א תֹסִפ֖וּן לִרְא֥וֹת פָּנָֽי
You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'
World English Bible · Public Domain
σύ δέ εἶπον ὁ παῖς σύ ἐάν μή κατβαίνω ὁ ἀδελφός σύ ὁ νέος μετά σύ οὐ προςτίθημι ἔτι ὁράω ὁ πρόσωπον ἐγώ
But you said to your servants, Except your younger brother come down with you, you⌃ shall not see my face again.
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.
וַאֲמַרְתָּ לְעַבְדָּיךְ אִם לָא יֵחוֹת אֲחוּכוֹן זְעֵירָא עִמְּכוֹן לָא תוֹסְפוּן לְמֶחֱזֵי אַפָּי
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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.
וַאֲמַרְתְּ לְעַבְדָךְ אִין לָא יֵיחוּת אֲחוּכוֹן זְעֵירָא עִמְכוֹן לָא תוֹסְפוּן לְמֵיחְמֵי סְבַר אַפָּי
Yet thou saidst to thy servants, If you bring not your youngest brother down, you shall not again see my face.
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 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qâṭân (“small”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 44:23 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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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.
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.
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