20But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
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And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
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.
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-20)We may well wonder that Joseph, during the twenty years that he had now been in Egypt, especially during the last seven years that he had been in power there, never sent to his father to acquaint him with his circumstances; nay, it is strange that he who so often went throughout all the land of Egypt ( Gen. 41:45 , 46 ) never made an excursion to Canaan, to visit his aged father, when he was in th…
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