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Genesis 42:34 KJV
Genesis · chapter 42 · verse 34
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.Genesis 42:34 · King James Version
Genesis 42:34 in context
32We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
33And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
34And 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.
35And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
36And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- youngestqâṭânabbreviatedH6996 →
- traffickçâcharto travel roundH5503 →
- brotherʼâcha brother )H251 →
- delivernâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- bringbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- spiesrâgalto walk alongH7270 →
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Here is, 1. The report which Jacob's sons made to their father of the great distress they had been in in Egypt; how they had been suspected, and threatened, and obliged to leave Simeon a prisoner there, till they should bring Benjamin with them thither.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 29-38