Genesis 42:20

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Then bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified, and you will not die.' And they did so.

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  • Gen 42:34 : 34 Bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will release your brother to you, and you may trade in the land."'
  • Gen 43:5 : 5 But if you do not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’
  • Gen 44:23 : 23 But you said to your servants, 'If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.'
  • Gen 42:15 : 15 This is how you will be tested: By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.'
  • Gen 42:26 : 26 Then they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.
  • Gen 43:19 : 19 So they approached Joseph's steward and spoke to him at the entrance of the house.
  • John 2:5 : 5 His mother said to the servants, 'Do whatever He tells you.'
  • Gen 6:22 : 22 And Noah did everything exactly as God commanded him.

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  • Gen 42:13-19
    7 verses
    85%

    13And 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.'

    14But Joseph said to them, 'It is just as I said: You are spies!

    15This is how you will be tested: By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.'

    16Send one of you to bring your brother; the rest of you will stay in prison. This will test whether your words are true. If not, then by the life of Pharaoh, you are spies.'

    17And he put them all into custody for three days.

    18On the third day, Joseph said to them, 'Do this, and you will live; for I fear God.'

    19If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

  • Gen 42:32-35
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    84%

    32"We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan."'

    33'Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, "This is how I will know if you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me and take food for your starving households and go.

    34Bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will release your brother to you, and you may trade in the land."'

    35As 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.

  • Gen 44:20-26
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    81%

    20And we answered my lord, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'"

    21Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me so that I may set my eyes on him.'"

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

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

    24When we went back to your servant, my father, we told him the words of my lord.

    25Later, our father said, 'Go back and buy us a little more food.'

    26But we said, 'We cannot go down unless our youngest brother is with us. For we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'

  • Gen 42:21-22
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    79%

    21They said to one another, 'Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw the anguish of his soul when he begged us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.'

    22Reuben 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 43:2-8
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    2When they had finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy a little more food for us.”

    3But Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

    4If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

    5But if you do not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

    6Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man that you had another brother?”

    7They replied, “The man kept asking us about ourselves and our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ We simply answered his questions. How could we have known he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

    8Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will get up and go, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.

  • Gen 45:12-13
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    12Look, your own eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin can see that it is my own mouth speaking to you.

    13Tell my father about all the honor that I have in Egypt and everything you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here.

  • Gen 44:31-32
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    31it 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.

    32For 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 43:13-14
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    75%

    13Take your brother also, and get up and return to the man.

    14May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.

  • Gen 42:2-3
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    75%

    2And he said, 'Look, I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.'

    3Then ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 45:4
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    4Then 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 42:29
    74%

    29When they came to Jacob, their father, in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.

  • Gen 42:37-38
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    74%

    37Then 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.'

    38But 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 44:2
    73%

    2"Then put my silver cup in the opening of the youngest one's sack, along with the silver for his grain." And he did as Joseph had instructed.

  • Gen 50:16
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    16So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, 'Before he died, your father gave this command:

  • Gen 43:17
    73%

    17The steward did as Joseph said and brought the men to Joseph's house.

  • Gen 50:24
    73%

    24Then Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.'