Genesis 37:30

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He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone! What am I going to do?"

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  • Gen 42:13 : 13 And they said, 'Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no longer alive.'
  • Gen 42:32 : 32 "We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan."'
  • Jer 31:15 : 15 This is what the LORD says: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping—Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they are no more.
  • Gen 37:20 : 20 Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a wild animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams."
  • Gen 42:35-36 : 35 As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his bundle of silver. When they and their father saw the bundles of silver, they were frightened. 36 Their father Jacob said to them, 'You have deprived me of my children! Joseph is gone; Simeon is gone; and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!'

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  • Gen 37:29
    84%

    29 When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

  • Gen 37:31-35
    5 verses
    77%

    31 Then they took Joseph's tunic, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

    32 They sent the ornate tunic to their father and said, "We found this. Please examine it to see whether it is your son's tunic or not."

    33 He recognized it and said, "It is my son's tunic! A wild animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces."

    34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son for many days.

    35 All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "I will go down to Sheol mourning my son." And his father wept for him.

  • Gen 42:36-38
    3 verses
    77%

    36 Their father Jacob said to them, 'You have deprived me of my children! Joseph is gone; Simeon is gone; and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!'

    37 Then Reuben said to his father, 'You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him back.'

    38 But Jacob said, 'My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.'

  • Gen 44:34
    76%

    34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come upon my father.

  • Gen 44:28-32
    5 verses
    75%

    28 'One of them went away from me, and I said, "Surely he has been torn to pieces," and I have not seen him since.'

    29 'If you take this one also from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to the grave in sorrow.'

    30 So now, if I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since his life is so closely bound up with the boy's life—

    31 it will happen that when he sees the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought down the gray hair of your servant, our father, in sorrow to the grave.

    32 For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'

  • Gen 37:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16 He replied, "I am looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are shepherding."

    17 The man said, "They have moved on from here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.

  • Gen 42:22
    73%

    22 Reuben replied to them, 'Didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy, but you wouldn't listen? Now his blood is being demanded from us.'

  • Gen 37:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12 Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem.

    13 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren’t your brothers shepherding the flock at Shechem? Go, and I will send you to them." Joseph replied, "Here I am."

    14 So Israel said to him, "Go now and see if everything is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me back a report." Then he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and Joseph went to Shechem.

  • Gen 37:22-24
    3 verses
    73%

    22 Reuben also said to them, "Do not shed any blood. Throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him." He said this intending to rescue him from their hands in order to return him to his father.

    23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing.

    24 Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

  • Gen 46:31
    73%

    31 Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, 'I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, "My brothers and my father’s household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.'"

  • Gen 45:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?' But his brothers could not answer him because they were so shocked and dismayed by his presence.

    4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, 'Please come closer to me.' They came closer, and he said, 'I am Joseph, your brother, the one you sold into Egypt.'

  • Gen 43:30
    72%

    30 Joseph was deeply moved at the sight of his brother and hurried out to find a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.

  • Gen 44:22
    72%

    22 But we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves, his father will die.'"

  • Gen 50:14
    72%

    14 After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all those who had gone up with him to bury his father.

  • Gen 42:13
    72%

    13 And they said, 'Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no longer alive.'

  • Gen 50:5
    72%

    5 'My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die. Bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now, please let me go and bury my father, and I will return.'

  • Gen 37:27
    71%

    27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed.

  • Gen 42:24
    71%

    24 Joseph turned away from them and wept, but when he returned to speak to them, he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.

  • Gen 37:20
    71%

    20 Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a wild animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams."

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