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Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”

Genesis 43:6 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીઉત્પત્તિ ૪૩:૬
ઇઝરાયલે કહ્યું, “અમારો બીજો ભાઈ છે, એમ તે માણસને કહીને તમે મારી સાથે આવું વર્તન કેમ કર્યું?”
हिन्दीउत्पत्ति ४३:६
तब इस्राएल ने कहा, “तुम ने उस पुरुष को यह बताकर कि हमारा एक और भाई है, क्यों मुझसे बुरा बर्ताव किया?”

In context

4If you’ll send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy you food;

5but if you don’t send him, we won’t go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”

6Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”

7They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”

8Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

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