Genesis 44:32

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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.'

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  • Gen 43:8-9 : 8 Then 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. 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 43:16 : 16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Take these men to my house, slaughter an animal, and prepare a meal, for they will eat with me at noon."

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  • Gen 44:33-34
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    33Now, 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.

    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 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 44:16-31
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    16Judah replied, "What can we say to my lord? How can we speak or justify ourselves? God has uncovered the guilt of your servants. Here we are, my lord's slaves, both we and the one in whose possession the cup was found."

    17But Joseph said, "Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose possession the cup was found will be my slave. As for the rest of you, go back to your father in peace."

    18Then Judah stepped forward and said, "Please, my lord, let your servant speak a word in my lord's hearing, and do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh."

    19My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'"

    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.'

    27Then your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.'

    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.'

    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.

  • Gen 42:37-38
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    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 44:7-10
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    7But they replied to him, "Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

    8"Look, we even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?

    9"If any of your servants is found with it, he will die, and we will also become my lord's slaves."

    10The steward replied, "Let it be as you say: whoever is found with it will become my slave, and the rest of you will be innocent."

  • Gen 31:6
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    6You know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.

  • Gen 42:20-21
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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.

    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.'

  • 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 42:33-34
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    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."'

  • Gen 30:29
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    29Jacob said to him, 'You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.'

  • Gen 32:20
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    20He also instructed the second, the third, and all those who followed the herds: 'This is what you are to say to Esau when you meet him.'

  • Gen 43:3-4
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    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.

  • 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 24:8
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    8If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. But do not take my son back there."

  • Gen 27:45
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    45When your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him, I will send for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?'

  • Gen 24:5
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    5The servant said to him, "What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Should I then take your son back to the land you came from?"

  • Gen 24:41
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    41'You will be released from my oath if you go to my family and they refuse to give her to you. Then you will be free from my oath.'