Genesis 44:26
Good News Translation
We answered, 'We cannot go; we will not be admitted to the man's presence unless our youngest brother is with us. We can go only if our youngest brother goes also.'

New Revised Standard Version
we said, ‘We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother goes with us, will we go down; for we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’

Contemporary English Version
But we told him, "We can't go back to Egypt without our youngest brother. We will never be let in to see the governor, unless he is with us."

New American Bible
So we reminded him, ‘We cannot go down there; only if our youngest brother is with us can we go, for we may not see the man if our youngest brother is not with us.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go down with us, we will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare not see the man's face.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go down with us, we will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare not see the man's face.

Genesis 43:4,5 If therefore thou wilt send him with us, we will set out together, and will buy necessaries for thee. . . .

Luke 11:7 And he from within should answer and say: Trouble me not; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give thee.

Context
Judah Pleads for Benjamin
25And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little wheat. 26And we said to him: We cannot go: if our youngest brother go down with us, we will set out together: otherwise, without him we dare not see the man's face.27Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two.…
Cross References
Genesis 44:25
And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little wheat.

Genesis 44:27
Whereunto he answered: You know that my wife bore me two.

Genesis 44:25
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