Genesis 42:37

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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.'

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  • Gen 46:9 : 9 The sons of Reuben were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
  • Mic 6:7 : 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand streams of oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
  • Gen 43:9 : 9 I will be a guarantee for him; you can hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.
  • Gen 44:32-34 : 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.' 33 Now, therefore, please let your servant remain here as a slave to my lord in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers. 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.

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  • Gen 42:38
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    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 37:20-22
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    20Come 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."

    21But Reuben heard this and tried to rescue him from their hands. He said, "Let us not take his life."

    22Reuben 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.

  • Gen 42:36
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    36Their 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!'

  • Gen 42:22
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    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 44:29-32
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    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.'

    30So 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—

    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 43:7-9
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    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.

    9I will be a guarantee for him; you can hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

  • Gen 43:14
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    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 37:29-30
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    29When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

    30He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone! What am I going to do?"

  • Gen 44:34
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    34For 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 44:21-23
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    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.'

  • Gen 45:13
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    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 44:27
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    27Then your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.'

  • Gen 42:20
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    20Then bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified, and you will not die.' And they did so.

  • Gen 48:9
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    9Joseph said to his father, 'They are my sons whom God has given to me here.' Israel said, 'Bring them to me, please, so I may bless them.'

  • Gen 42:29
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    29When they came to Jacob, their father, in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.

  • Gen 42:4
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    4But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his other brothers, for he said, 'Something bad might happen to him.'

  • Gen 50:5
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    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 42:32
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    32"We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan."'

  • Gen 42:34
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    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."'