Genesis 43:13
in Genesis 43Take your brother as well, and return to the man at once.
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take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
KJV
Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
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This verse in Genesis 43
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
the best products of the land
on Genesis 43:11-13
Israel sends balm and honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds down as a gift. The caravan that carried Joseph to Egypt in 37:25 was loaded with spices, balm and myrrh. The freight that took the son away is now the gift sent after him by a father who does not know it. He sends double the silver and calls it a mistake.
This site's exposition
Take your brother as well
Jacob names Benjamin last, after the gift and the silver. The words give the boy into the care of the brothers who once lost Joseph. Return at once, he says, with the urgency Judah pressed in verse 10.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Then Jacob was constrained by the famine, whether he was willing or not, to send Benjamin with them. So he gave them supplies and sent them off with blessings and said, "Just as I was bereaved of Rachel, so am I now bereaved of Rachel's …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Take also your brother,.... Their brother Benjamin, committing him into their hands and to their care, hereby declaring his consent and willingness that he should go with them: and arise, go again to the man; the governor of Egypt, to buy corn of him.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
In line with the literal interpretation of Scripture, it would seem that Simeon was not a favorite of his father because of the Shechem affair. 177 Above,:25-30.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֲחִיכֶ֖ם | ʾachikhem | brother your | H251 → | 630 times |
| קָ֑חוּ | kachu | take | H3947 → | 966 times |
| וְק֖וּמוּ | vekumu | and arise | H6965 → | 628 times |
| שׁ֥וּבוּ | shuvu | go back | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הָאִֽישׁ׃ | haish | the man | H376 → | 1663 times |
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
אֲחִיכֶ֖םbrother your
ʾachikhemH251 →630 times
קָ֑חוּtake
kachuH3947 →966 times
וְק֖וּמוּand arise
vekumuH6965 →628 times
שׁ֥וּבוּgo back
shuvuH7725 →1056 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הָאִֽישׁ׃the man
haishH376 →1663 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 42:38But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring…
it leads to
- Genesis 37:35
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
- Genesis 37:33
His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
- Genesis 42:4
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
- Genesis 42:13
But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
- Genesis 35:16–18
Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
- Genesis 37:35
About Genesis
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ephrem the Syrian, COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 37:3; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).