Genesis 42:4
Good News Translation
but Jacob did not send Joseph's full brother Benjamin with them, because he was afraid that something might happen to him.

New Revised Standard Version
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he feared that harm might come to him.

Contemporary English Version
But Jacob did not send Joseph's younger brother Benjamin with them; he was afraid that something might happen to him.

New American Bible
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought some disaster might befall him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.

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Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.

Benjamin.

Genesis 35:16-19 And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail, . . .

Lest.

Genesis 42:38 But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.

Genesis 3:22 And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

Genesis 11:4 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.

Genesis 33:1,2 And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids. . . .

Genesis 43:14,29 And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me I shall be desolate without children. . . .

Genesis 44:20-22,27-34 And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly. . . .

Context
Joseph's Brothers Sent to Egypt
3So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt: 4Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest perhaps he take any harm in the journey.5And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.…
Cross References
Genesis 35:24
The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 42:3
So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:

Genesis 42:38
But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.

Genesis 42:3
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