Genesis 44:33

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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.

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  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
  • Exod 32:32 : 32 But now, if You will forgive their sin, please do so. But if not, then blot me out of the book You have written."
  • Rom 5:7-9 : 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person, though perhaps for a good person one might dare even to die. 8 But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, since we have now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. 10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
  • Rom 9:3 : 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own people according to the flesh.
  • Heb 7:22 : 22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

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  • Gen 44:29-32
    4 verses
    88%

    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 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 44:17-27
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    80%

    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.'

  • 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 43:8-9
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    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 44:7
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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!

  • Gen 44:9-10
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    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 43:13-14
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    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 33:13-14
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    13But Jacob replied, 'My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds that are nursing are my responsibility. If they are driven hard even for one day, all the flocks will die.'

    14'Let my lord go ahead of his servant; I will move at a gentle pace as the livestock and children are able to go until I come to my lord in Seir.'

  • 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.'

  • Exod 4:23
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    23and I told you to let my son go so he may worship me, but you refused to let him go. So I will kill your firstborn son.'

  • Gen 18:3
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    3He said, 'My Lord, if I have found favor in Your sight, please do not pass by Your servant.'

  • Gen 24:34
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    34So he said, "I am Abraham’s servant.

  • 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 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 27:44
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    44Stay with him for a while, until your brother's fury subsides.

  • 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 24:49
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    49Now if you are willing to show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me. If not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left.

  • 2 Sam 19:37
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    37Your servant will merely cross the Jordan with the king for a short distance. Why should the king reward me with such a benefit?

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

  • Gen 24:56
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    56But he said to them, 'Do not delay me. The Lord has given success to my journey. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master.'