13Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
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And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-14)Observe here, I. Jacob’s persuasibleness. He would be ruled by reason, though they were his inferiors that urged it. He saw the necessity of the case; and, since there was no remedy, he consented to yield to the necessity (Gen. 43:11): “ If it must be so now, take your brother . If no corn can be had but upon those terms, we may as well expose him to the perils of the journey as suffer ourselves a…
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