“Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 44 contains 34 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.