Genesis 42:32
New International Version
We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.’

New Living Translation
We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One brother is no longer with us, and the youngest is at home with our father in the land of Canaan.’

English Standard Version
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’

Berean Standard Bible
We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’

King James Bible
We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

New King James Version
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is with our father this day in the land of Canaan.’

New American Standard Bible
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’

NASB 1995
‘We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’

NASB 1977
‘We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’

Legacy Standard Bible
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’

Amplified Bible
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’

Christian Standard Bible
We were twelve brothers, sons of the same father. One is no longer living, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We were 12 brothers, sons of the same father. One is no longer living, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.

American Standard Version
we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father, and one is not, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is with his father to-day in the land of Chanaan.

Contemporary English Version
We come from a family of twelve brothers. The youngest is still with our father in Canaan, and the other is dead."

Douay-Rheims Bible
We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.

English Revised Version
we be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We were 12 brothers, sons of the same father. One is no longer with us. The youngest brother stayed with our father in Canaan.'

Good News Translation
We were twelve brothers in all, sons of the same father. One brother is dead, and the youngest is still in Canaan with our father.'

International Standard Version
Our father has twelve sons, but one of us isn't alive anymore, and our youngest brother is with our father today back home in Canaan.'

JPS Tanakh 1917
We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

Literal Standard Version
we [are] twelve brothers, sons of our father, one is not, and the young one [is] today with our father in the land of Canaan.

Majority Standard Bible
We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’

New American Bible
We are twelve brothers, sons of the same father; but one is no more, and the youngest one is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’

NET Bible
We are from a family of twelve brothers; we are the sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father at this time in the land of Canaan.'

New Revised Standard Version
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’

New Heart English Bible
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.'

Webster's Bible Translation
We are twelve brethren, sons of our father: one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

World English Bible
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

Young's Literal Translation
we are twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one is to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.

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Context
Joseph's Brothers Return to Canaan
31But we told him, ‘We are honest men, not spies. 32We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’ 33Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.…

Cross References
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 42:31
But we told him, 'We are honest men, not spies.

Genesis 42:33
Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, 'This is how I will know whether you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.


Treasury of Scripture

We be twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

twelve brethren.

Genesis 42:13
And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

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Genesis 42
1. Jacob sends his ten sons to buy grain in Egypt.
16. They are imprisoned by Joseph as spies.
18. They are set at liberty, on condition to bring Benjamin.
21. They have remorse for Joseph.
24. Simeon is kept for a pledge.
25. They return with grain, and their money.
29. Their relation to Jacob.
36. Jacob refuses to send Benjamin.
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
We
אֲנַ֛חְנוּ (’ă·naḥ·nū)
Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's 587: We

are twelve
שְׁנֵים־ (šə·nêm-)
Number - md
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

brothers,
אַחִ֖ים (’a·ḥîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 251: A brother, )

sons
בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of one father.
אָבִ֑ינוּ (’ā·ḇî·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 1: Father

One
הָאֶחָ֣ד (hā·’e·ḥāḏ)
Article | Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

is no more,
אֵינֶ֔נּוּ (’ê·nen·nū)
Adverb | third person masculine singular
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

and the youngest
וְהַקָּטֹ֥ן (wə·haq·qā·ṭōn)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6996: Small, young, unimportant

is now
הַיּ֛וֹם (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

with
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

our father
אָבִ֖ינוּ (’ā·ḇî·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 1: Father

in the land
בְּאֶ֥רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

of Canaan.’
כְּנָֽעַן׃ (kə·nā·‘an)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3667: Canaan -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land West of the Jordan


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