Genesis 42:37

American Standard Version (1901)

And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

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  • Gen 46:9 : 9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
  • Mic 6:7 : 7 will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
  • Gen 43:9 : 9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
  • Gen 44:32-34 : 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever. 33 Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. 34 For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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  • 38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

  • Gen 37:20-22
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    20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

    21 And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

    22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him: that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

  • 36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

  • 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required.

  • Gen 44:29-32
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    29 and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

    30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

    31 it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not [with us], that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

    32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever.

  • Gen 43:7-9
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    7 And they said, The man asked straitly concerning ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye [another] brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we in any wise know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

    8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

    9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

  • 14 and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

  • Gen 37:29-30
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    29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.

    30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

  • 34 For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

  • Gen 44:21-23
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    21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

    22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

    23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

  • 13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen: and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.

  • 27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

  • 20 and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

  • 9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.

  • 29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them, saying,

  • 4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him.

  • 5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

  • 32 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.

  • 34 and bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.