Genesis 44:21
Good News Translation
Sir, you told us to bring him here, so that you could see him,

New Revised Standard Version
Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, so that I may set my eyes on him.’

Contemporary English Version
You ordered us to bring him here, so you could see him for yourself.

New American Bible
Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me that I might see him.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I will set my eyes on him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I will set my eyes on him.

Bring.

Genesis 42:15,20 I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come. . . .

Genesis 43:29 And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw Benjamin, his brother by the same mother, and said: Is this your young brother, of whom you told me? And he said: God be gracious to thee, my son.

that I may.

Jeremiah 24:6 And I will set my eyes upon them to be pacified, and I will bring them again into this land: and I will build them up, and not pull them down: and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

Jeremiah 50:4 In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together: going and weeping they shall make haste, and shall seek the Lord their God.

Amos 9:4 And though they be hid in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them away from thence: and though they hide themselves from my eyes in the depth of the sea, there will I command the serpent and he shall bite them.

Context
Judah Pleads for Benjamin
20And 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. 21And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I will set my eyes on him.22We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if he leave him, he will die.…
Cross References
Genesis 42:15
I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.

Genesis 42:20
And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.

Genesis 44:22
We suggested to my lord: The boy cannot leave his father: for if he leave him, he will die.

Genesis 44:20
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