Genesis 44:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.

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  • Gen 31:32 : 32 As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.
  • Gen 43:18 : 18 So they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of the house,
  • Gen 44:16 : 16 And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen.
  • Job 31:38-40 : 38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; 39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners; 40 Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
  • Ps 7:3-5 : 3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong; 4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause; 5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)
  • Acts 25:11 : 11 If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.

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  • Gen 44:10-11
    2 verses
    88%

    10 And he said, Let it be as you say: he in whose bag it is seen will become my servant; and you will not be responsible.

    11 Then every man quickly got his bag down and undid it.

  • Gen 44:7-8
    2 verses
    82%

    7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:

    8 See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house?

  • Gen 44:16-24
    9 verses
    79%

    16 And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen.

    17 Then he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who had my cup will be my servant; and you may go back to your father in peace.

    18 Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.

    19 My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother?

    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.

    21 And you said to your servants, Let him come down to me with you, so that I may see him.

    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.

  • Gen 44:29-33
    5 verses
    75%

    29 If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

    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.

  • Gen 47:25
    74%

    25 And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

  • Gen 47:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18 And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;

    19 Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

  • Josh 2:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

    20 But if you say anything about our business here, then we will be free from the oath you have made us take.

  • Deut 24:7
    72%

    7 If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • Gen 42:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 And they said to him, Not so, my lord: your servants have come with money to get food.

    11 We are all one man's sons, we are true men; we have not come with any secret purpose.

  • Gen 50:18
    71%

    18 Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.

  • Neh 9:36
    71%

    36 Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

  • Gen 42:33
    70%

    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 42:19-21
    3 verses
    70%

    19 If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

    20 And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.

    21 And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.

  • Exod 21:16
    70%

    16 Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

  • Gen 43:9
    70%

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

  • Gen 44:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 Then he gave orders to the servant who was over his house, saying, Put as much food into the men's bags as will go into them, and put every man's money in the mouth of his bag;

    2 And put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag, with his money. So he did as Joseph said.

  • Gen 43:22
    69%

    22 Then the servant said, Peace be with you: have no fear: your God, even the God of your father, has put wealth in your bags for you: I had your money. Then he let Simeon come out to them.

  • Gen 31:32
    69%

    32 As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.

  • Gen 43:18
    69%

    18 So they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of the house,

  • Exod 4:23
    69%

    23 And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death.