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24 When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

25 “Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us a little food.’ 26 But we replied, ‘We cannot go down there.[a] If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go,[b] for we won’t be permitted to see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 44:26 tn The direct object is not specified in the Hebrew text, but is implied; “there” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  2. Genesis 44:26 tn Heb “go down.”