Genesis 43:6
World English Bible (WEB)
Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”
In context
4 If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;
5 but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”
6 Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”
7 They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”
8 Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
Genesis 43:6 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that 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?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man 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?