Genesis 43:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

They aunswered, The man asked vs straytely of our state and of our kinrede, saying: Is your father yet aliue? haue ye not another brother? And we tolde hym accordyng to the tenour of these wordes: Could we by any meane knowe, that he would say, bryng your brother downe with you?

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  • Gen 43:3 : 3 Iuda aunswered him, and sayd, The man did solemply protest vnto vs saying: ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
  • Gen 43:27 : 27 And he asked them of their welfare, and sayd: Is your father, that old man whiche ye tolde me of, in good health? and is he yet aliue?
  • Gen 42:13 : 13 And they said: we thy seruauntes are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Chanaan, and beholde, the youngest is this day with our father, & one, no man woteth where he is.

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  • Gen 43:2-6
    5 verses
    87%

    2And it came to passe when they had eaten vp the corne which they had brought out of the lande of Egypt, theyr father sayde vnto them: go agayne and bye vs a litle foode.

    3Iuda aunswered him, and sayd, The man did solemply protest vnto vs saying: ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

    4If thou wylt sende our brother with vs, we wyll go downe, and bye thee foode.

    5But yf thou wylt not sende hym, we wyll not go downe: for the man sayde vnto vs, ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

    6And Israel sayd: wherefore dealt ye so cruelly with me, as to tell the man that ye had yet a brother?

  • Gen 42:29-34
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    29And they came vnto Iacob their father, vnto the lande of Chanaan, & tolde him all that befell vnto them, saying:

    30The man, euen the Lord of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and toke vs for spyes of the countrey.

    31And we sayd vnto him: we meane truely, we neuer were spyes.

    32We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is away, and the youngest is this day with our father in the lande of Chanaan.

    33And the Lorde of the countrey sayde agayne vnto vs, Hereby shall I know that ye meane truely: leaue one of your brethren here with me, and take foode to put away the famine fro your householdes, and get you away.

    34And bring your youngest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that you are no spyes, but meane truely: so wyll I deliuer you your brother, and ye shall occupie in the lande.

  • Gen 44:19-27
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    19My lorde asked his seruauntes, saying: haue ye a father, or a brother?

    20And we aunswered my lorde: we haue a father that is olde, and a young lad, which he begat in his age: and the brother of the sayd lad is dead, and he is all that is left of his mother, and his father loueth him.

    21And thou saidest vnto thy seruauntes: bryng him vnto me, that I may set my eyes vpon him.

    22And we aunswered my Lorde, that the lad could not go from his father, for if he shoulde leaue his father, he were but dead.

    23Then saydest thou vnto thy seruauntes: except your youngest brother come with you, loke that ye see my face no more.

    24And when we came vnto thy seruaunt our father, we shewed hym the wordes of my Lorde.

    25And our father sayde vnto vs: go agayne, and bye vs a litle foode.

    26And we aunswered, we can not go downe: neuerthelesse, if our youngest brother be with vs, then wyll we go downe, for we may not see the mans face, except our youngest brother be with vs.

    27And thy seruaunt our father sayd vnto vs: ye knowe that my wyfe bare me two sonnes.

  • 8The said Iuda vnto Israel his father: send the lad with me, that we may arise and go, and that we may liue, & not dye, yea both we & thou, & also our meany.

  • Gen 43:27-28
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    27And he asked them of their welfare, and sayd: Is your father, that old man whiche ye tolde me of, in good health? and is he yet aliue?

    28They aunswered: Thy seruaunt our father is in good health, & is yet alyue. And they bowing them selues, made theyr obeysaunce.

  • Gen 42:20-21
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    20But bryng your youngest brother vnto me, and so shal your wordes be tryed true, and ye shall not dye: & they dyd so.

    21And one sayde to another: we haue veryly sinned agaynst our brother, in that we sawe the anguishe of his soule, when he besought vs, and we woulde not heare him: and therfore is this trouble come vpon vs.

  • Gen 42:13-15
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    13And they said: we thy seruauntes are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Chanaan, and beholde, the youngest is this day with our father, & one, no man woteth where he is.

    14And Ioseph saide vnto them: that is it that I spake vnto you when I sayd, ye are spyes.

    15Hereby ye shalbe proued: by the lyfe of Pharao, ye shall not go hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

  • Gen 44:7-8
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    7And they aunswered him: wherfore sayeth my Lorde suche wordes? God forbid that thy seruauntes should do so.

    8Beholde the money which we founde in our sackes mouthes, we brought agayne vnto thee, out of the land of Chanaan: howe then shoulde we steale out of thy Lordes house eyther siluer or golde?

  • 7When Ioseph sawe his brethren, he knewe them, and made hym selfe straunge vnto them, & spake roughly vnto them, saying: Whence come ye? They aunswered, out of the lande of Chanaan to bye vitayle.

  • 13Take also your brother with you, and arise and go agayne vnto the man.

  • 22And other money haue we brought also in our handes to bye foode: but we can not tell who put our money in our sackes.

  • 20And sayde: oh sir, we came downe hyther at the fyrst tyme to bye foode.

  • 27Come on, and let vs sell hym to the Ismaelites, and let not our hande be vpon him: for he is our brother and our fleshe. And his brethren were content.

  • 13Therfore tell my father of all my glorie in Egypt, and of all that you haue seene, and make hast, and bryng my father hyther.

  • 17And the man did as Ioseph bad, and brought them into Iosephes house.

  • 15Thus toke they the present, and twyse so muche more money in their hande, with Beniamin, and rose vp, and went downe to Egypt, & stode before Ioseph.

  • 3And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren: I am Ioseph, doth my father yet lyue? And his brethren could not aunswere him, they were so abashed at his presence.

  • 31And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren, and vnto his fathers house: I wyll go vp, and shewe Pharao, and tell him: my brethren, and my fathers house, whiche were in the lande of Chanaan, are come vnto me.

  • 14He aunswered: here am I. And he sayde vnto hym: Go I praye thee see whether it be well with thy brethren and the cattell, and bryng me worde agayne. And so he sent hym out of the vale of Hebron, & he came to Sichem.