Genesis 43:13-14 - Exposition

Take also your brother , and arise, go again unto the man: and God Almighty —El Shaddai, the covenant God of Abraham ( Genesis 17:1 ), and of Jacob himself ( Genesis 35:11 )— give you mercy (literally, bowels, hence very tender affection, the inward parts being regarded as the seat of the emotions) before the man, that he may send away— literally, and he shall send with you {Kalisch), or for you (Keil)— your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved —literally, and if I am bereaved, I am bereaved, an expression of the patriarch's acquiescence in the Divine will (cf. 2 Kings 7:4 ; Esther 4:16 ).