6Israel asked, "Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had another brother?"


In Context

3 But Judah said to him, "The man warned us solemnly, 'You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.'

4 If you will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

5 But if you will not send him, we will not go down, because the man said to us, 'You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.' "

6 Israel asked, "Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had another brother?"

7 They replied, "The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. 'Is your father still living?' he asked us. 'Do you have another brother?' We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, 'Bring your brother down here'?"

8 Then Judah said to Israel his father, "Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.

Genesis 43:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

43:6And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

43:6Israel said to them: You have done this for my misery in that you told him you had also another brother.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

43:6And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

43:6And Israel said, Why did ye deal so ill with me as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

43:6And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

43:6And Israel said, Why dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

43:6Israel said, |Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

43:6And Israel saith, 'Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

43:6And Israel said, Why dealt you so ill with me, as to tell the man whether you had yet a brother?