Genesis 43:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

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  • Gen 42:2 : 2 And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.
  • Gen 42:38 : 38 And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.
  • Gen 44:26 : 26 And we said, Only if our youngest brother goes with us will we go down; for we may not see the man's face again if our youngest brother is not with us.
  • Gen 45:19 : 19 And say to them, This you are to do: take carts from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and get your father and come back.
  • Gen 50:8 : 8 And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.
  • Gen 50:21 : 21 So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.
  • Exod 20:12 : 12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Num 14:31 : 31 And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.
  • Deut 33:6 : 6 Let life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of his men be small.
  • 2 Kgs 7:4 : 4 If we say, We will go into the town, there is no food in the town, and we will come to our end there; and if we go on waiting here, death will come to us. Come then, let us give ourselves up to the army of Aram: if they let us go on living, then life will be ours; and if they put us to death, then death will be ours.
  • 2 Kgs 7:13 : 13 And one of his servants said in answer, Send men and let them take five of the horses which we still have in the town; if they keep their lives they will be the same as those of Israel who are still living here; if they come to their death they will be the same as all those of Israel who have gone to destruction: let us send and see.
  • Ezra 8:21 : 21 Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.
  • Ps 118:17 : 17 Life and not death will be my part, and I will give out the story of the works of the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 44:22-27
    6 verses
    81%

    22 And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death.

    23 But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.

    24 And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.

    25 And our father said, Go again and get us a little food.

    26 And we said, Only if our youngest brother goes with us will we go down; for we may not see the man's face again if our youngest brother is not with us.

    27 And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons;

  • Gen 43:7
    80%

    7 Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.

  • Gen 43:2-5
    4 verses
    79%

    2 And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.

    3 If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food:

    4 But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother is not with you.

    5 And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?

  • Gen 44:30-34
    5 verses
    79%

    30 If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,

    31 When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.

    32 For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

    33 So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

    34 For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

  • Gen 43:9
    79%

    9 Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now.

  • Gen 42:37-38
    2 verses
    78%

    37 And Reuben said, Put my two sons to death if I do not come back to you with him; let him be in my care and I will give him safely back to you.

    38 And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.

  • Gen 44:20
    77%

    20 And we said to my lord, We have an old father and a young child, whom he had when he was old; his brother is dead and he is the only son of his mother, and is very dear to his father.

  • Josh 2:13
    76%

    13 And that you will keep safe my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and all they have, so that death may not come on us?

  • Gen 46:28
    75%

    28 Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 43:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.

    14 So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.

  • Gen 42:32-33
    2 verses
    74%

    32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.

    33 And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

  • Gen 42:2
    74%

    2 And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

  • Gen 48:21
    74%

    21 Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.

  • Gen 46:31
    73%

    31 And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;