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But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

Genesis 42:4 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીઉત્પત્તિ ૪૨:૪
પણ તેઓની સાથે યૂસફના ભાઈ બિન્યામીનને યાકૂબે મોકલ્યો નહિ, કેમ કે તેણે કહ્યું, “કદાચને તેના પર કંઈ વિઘ્ન આવી પડે.”
हिन्दीउत्पत्ति ४२:४
पर यूसुफ के भाई बिन्यामीन को याकूब ने यह सोचकर भाइयों के साथ न भेजा कि कहीं ऐसा न हो कि उस पर कोई विपत्ति आ पड़े।

In context

2He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”

3Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

4But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

6Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

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