Genesis 43:6
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
“Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?”
In context
4 If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
5 But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’”
6 “Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?”
7 They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”
8 And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.
Genesis 43:6 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?”
- KJV King James Version
- And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
- WEB World English Bible
- Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And Israel saith, 'Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Israel said, Why did ye deal [so] ill with me [as] to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
- WBS Webster Bible
- And Israel said, Why dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?