Genesis 43:8
Good News Translation
Judah said to his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will leave at once. Then none of us will starve to death.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and let us be on our way, so that we may live and not die—you and we and also our little ones.

Contemporary English Version
Then Judah said to his father, "Let Benjamin go with me, and we will leave at once, so that none of us will starve to death.

New American Bible
Then Judah urged his father Israel: “Let the boy go with me, that we may be off and on our way if you and we and our children are to keep from starving to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.

lad with me.

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 44:26 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.

Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

that we.

Genesis 42:2 I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: Go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.

Deuteronomy 33:6 Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he small in number.

2 Kings 7:4,13 If we will enter into the city, we shall die with the famine: and if we will remain here, we must also die: come therefore, and let us run over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we shall live: but if they kill us, we shall but die. . . .

Psalm 118:17 I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord.

also our.

Genesis 45:19 Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt, for the carriage of their children and their wives; and say: Take up your father, and make haste to come with all speed:

Genesis 50:8,21 And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen. . . .

Numbers 14:31 But your children, of whom you said, that they should be a prey to the enemies, will I bring in: that they may see the land which you have despised.

Ezra 8:21 And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right way for us and for our children, and for all our substance.

Context
The Return to Egypt with Benjamin
7But they answered: The man asked us in order concerning our kindred: if our father lived: if we had a brother: and we answered him regularly, according to what he demanded: could we know that he would say: Bring hither your brother with you? 8And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.9I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.…
Cross References
Genesis 42:2
I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: Go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.

Genesis 44:20
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.

Genesis 43:7
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