If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
Parallel translations
- WEB If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food,
- KJV If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
- ESV If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.
- NKJV If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.
- NASB If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.
- NLT If you send Benjamin with us, we will go down and buy more food.
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Quick answer
Judah offers to go and buy food if Benjamin is sent along. He ties the family's survival to releasing the youngest son.
Overview
Judah lays out the only workable plan: send Benjamin and live, or refuse and starve. His clear-eyed practicality presses Jacob toward the necessary decision. The condition advances the family toward the Egypt reunion at the heart of God's redemptive plan.
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