Genesis 44:27

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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

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  • Gen 46:19 : 19 The chyldren of Rachel Iacobs wife: Ioseph and Beniamin.
  • Gen 29:18-21 : 18 And Iacob loued Rachel, and sayde: I wyll serue thee seuen yere for Rachel thy younger daughter. 19 Laban aunswered: It is better that I geue her vnto thee, then that I shoulde geue her to another man: abide with me. 20 And Iacob serued seuen yere for Rachel: and they seemed vnto hym but a fewe dayes, for the loue he hadde to her. 21 And Iacob said vnto Laban: geue me my wife that I may lye with her, for my dayes are fulfylled.
  • Gen 29:28 : 28 And Iacob dyd euen so, and passed out the weeke: and then he gaue hym Rachel his daughter to wyfe also.
  • Gen 30:22-25 : 22 And God remembred Rachel, & God hearde her, and made her fruitefull, 23 So that she conceaued & bare a sonne: and sayde, God hath taken awaye my rebuke. 24 And she called his name Ioseph, saying: the Lorde geue me yet another sonne. 25 Assoone as Rachel had borne Ioseph, Iacob sayde to Laban: Send me away, that I maye go vnto my owne place, and to my countrey.
  • Gen 35:16-18 : 16 And they departed from Bethel: and when he was but a fielde breadth from Ephrath, Rachel began to trauell, and in trauayling, she was in perill: 17 And as she was in paynes of her labour, the midwife saide vnto her: feare not, for this sonne is thyne also. 18 Then as her soule was a departing (for she died) she called his name Benoni, but his father called hym Beniamin.

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  • Gen 44:19-26
    8 verses
    83%

    19 My lorde asked his seruauntes, saying: haue ye a father, or a brother?

    20 And 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.

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

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

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

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

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

    26 And 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.

  • Gen 44:28-34
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    28 And the one went out from me, and I sayd, of a suretie he is torne in peeces, and I sawe him not since.

    29 And if ye take this also away from me, and destruction come vnto him, ye shall bryng my gray head with sorowe vnto the graue.

    30 Nowe therefore when I come to thy seruaunt my father, and the lad be not with vs (seing that his life hangeth by the laddes life.)

    31 Then shall it come to passe, that assoone as he seeth that the lad is not come, he wyll dye: so shall we thy seruauntes bryng the gray head of thy seruaunt our father with sorowe vnto the graue.

    32 For I thy seruaunt became suretie for the lad before my father, and saide: If I bryng hym not vnto thee agayne, I shal beare the blame vnto my father all my lyfe long.

    33 Nowe therefore I pray thee, let me thy seruaunt byde here for the lad, and be my lordes bondman, and let the lad go vp with his brethren.

    34 For howe can I go vp to my father, if the ladde be not with me? vnlesse I woulde see the wretchednesse that shall come on my father.

  • 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.

  • Gen 42:31-34
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    79%

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

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

    33 And 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.

    34 And 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 43:2-8
    7 verses
    79%

    2 And 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.

    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.

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

    5 But 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.

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

    7 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?

    8 The 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 42:36-38
    3 verses
    75%

    36 And Iacob theyr father sayde vnto them: Me haue ye robbed of my children, Ioseph is away, and Simeon is away, & ye will take Beniamin away: all these thinges are agaynst me.

    37 Ruben said vnto his father: slay my two sonnes, yf I bring hym not to thee agayne: deliuer him to my hande, and I will bring him to thee agayne.

    38 And he said: My sonne shall not go downe with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if destruction come vpon hym by the way whiche ye go, ye shall bring my gray head with sorowe vnto the graue.

  • 6 And ye knowe howe I haue serued your father to the best of my power.

  • Gen 45:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 And beholde your eyes do see, and the eyes also of my brother Beniamin, that mine own mouth speaketh vnto you.

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

  • 31 And 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.

  • 38 But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne.

  • 14 And God almightie geue you mercye in the sight of the man, that he may deliuer you your other brother, & this Beniamin: and thus I am as one that is quite robbed of his chyldren.

  • 27 But when the tyme was come that she shoulde be deliuered, beholde there was two twynnes in her wombe.

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

  • 7 And beholde, the whole kindred is risen against thy handmayd, & they said: Delyuer hym that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the soule of his brother whom he slue, we will destroy the heyre also: And so they shall quenche my sparkle which is left, and shall not leaue to my husband neither name nor issue vpon the earth.

  • 5 And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: thy father & thy brethre are come vnto thee.

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

  • 29 But he saide vnto him: Thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee, and in what takyng thy cattell haue ben vnder me:

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

  • 25 They departed therfore from Egypt, and came into the lande of Chanaan, vnto Iacob theyr father.

  • Gen 48:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 And Israel beheld Iosephes sonnes, and sayde: What are these?

    9 Ioseph sayde vnto his father: They are my sonnes whiche God hath geuen me here. And he sayde: Oh bring them to me, and let me blesse them.