Genesis 42:15

Geneva Bible (1560)

Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shal not goe hence, except your yongest brother come hither.

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  • 1 Sam 17:55 : 55 When Saul sawe Dauid go forth against the Philistim, he sayd vnto Abner the captaine of his hoste, Abner, whose sonne is this yong man? & Abner answered, As thy soule liueth, O King, I can not tell.
  • 1 Sam 20:3 : 3 And Dauid sware againe and sayd, Thy father knoweth that I haue found grace in thine eyes: therefore he thinketh, Ionathan shall not knowe it, lest he be sorie: but in deede, as the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth, there is but a step betweene me and death.
  • Jer 5:2 : 2 For though they say, The Lord liueth, yet doe they sweare falsely.
  • Jer 5:7 : 7 Howe should I spare thee for this? Thy children haue forsaken me, and sworne by them that are no gods: though I fed them to the full, yet they committed adulterie, and assembled them selues by companies in the harlots houses.
  • Matt 5:33-37 : 33 Againe, ye haue heard that it was sayd to them of old time, Thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe, but shalt performe thine othes to the Lord. 34 But I say vnto you, Sweare not at all, neither by heauen, for it is the throne of God: 35 Nor yet by the earth: for it is his footestoole: neither by Hierusalem: for it is the citie of the great King. 36 Neither shalt thou sweare by thine head, because thou canst not make one heare white or blacke. 37 But let your communication be Yea, yea: Nay, nay. For whatsoeuer is more then these, commeth of euill.
  • Matt 23:16-22 : 16 Wo be vnto you blinde guides, which say, Whosoeuer sweareth by the Temple, it is nothing: but whosoeuer sweareth by the golde of the Temple, he offendeth. 17 Ye fooles and blinde, whether is greater, the golde, or the Temple that sanctifieth the golde? 18 And whosoeuer sweareth by the altar, it is nothing: but whosoeuer sweareth by the offering that is vpon it, offendeth. 19 Ye fooles and blinde, whether is greater, the offering, or the altar which sanctifieth the offering? 20 Whosoeuer therefore sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. 21 And whosoeuer sweareth by the Temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. 22 And he that sweareth by heauen, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
  • Jas 5:12 : 12 But before all thinges, my brethren, sweare not, neither by heauen, nor by earth, nor by any other othe: but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into condemnation.
  • Gen 42:7 : 7 And when Ioseph sawe his brethren, hee knewe them, and made himselfe straunge toward them, and spake to them roughly, and saide vnto them, Whence come yee? Who answered, Out of the land of Canaan, to bye vitaile.
  • Gen 42:12 : 12 But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.
  • Gen 42:16 : 16 Send one of you which may fet your brother, & ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proued, whether there bee trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies.
  • Gen 42:20 : 20 But bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they did so.
  • Gen 42:30 : 30 The man, who is Lorde of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.
  • Gen 42:34 : 34 And bring your yongest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies, but true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and yee shall occupie in the land.
  • Gen 43:3 : 3 And Iudah answered him, saying, The man charged vs by an othe, saying, Neuer see my face, except your brother be with you.
  • Gen 44:20-34 : 20 And we answered my Lorde, We haue a father that is olde, and a young childe, which he begate in his age: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loueth him. 21 Now thou saidest vnto thy seruants, Bring him vnto me, that I may set mine eye vpo him. 22 And we answered my lord, The childe can not depart from his father: for if he leaue his father, his father would die. 23 Then saydest thou vnto thy seruants, Except your yonger brother come downe with you, looke in my face no more. 24 So when we came vnto thy seruant our father, and shewed him what my lord had sayd, 25 And our father sayde vnto vs, Goe againe, bye vs a litle foode, 26 Then we answered, We can not go downe: but if our yongest brother go with vs, then will we go downe: for we may not see the mans face, except our yongest brother be with vs. 27 Then thy seruant my father sayde vnto vs, Ye knowe that my wife bare me two sonnes, 28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Of a suretie he is torne in pieces, and I sawe him not since. 29 Nowe yee take this also away from me: if death take him, then yee shall bring my graye head in sorowe to the graue. 30 Nowe therefore, when I come to thy seruant my father, & the childe be not with vs (seeing that his life dependeth on the childes life) 31 Then when hee shall see that the childe is not come, he will die: so shall thy seruants bring the graye head of thy seruant our father with sorowe to the graue. 32 Doubtlesse thy seruant became suertie for the childe to my father, and said, If I bring him not vnto thee againe, then I will beare the blame vnto my father for euer. 33 Nowe therefore, I pray thee, let me thy seruant bide for the childe, as a seruant to my Lord, and let the childe go vp with his brethren. 34 For howe can I go vp to my father, if the childe be not with me, vnlesse I woulde see the euil that shall come on my father?
  • Deut 6:13 : 13 Thou shalt feare the Lorde thy God, and serue him, and shalt sweare by his Name.
  • 1 Sam 1:26 : 26 And she said, Oh my Lord, as thy soule liueth, my lord, I am the woman that stoode with thee here praying vnto the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 42:16-21
    6 verses
    90%

    16 Send one of you which may fet your brother, & ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proued, whether there bee trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies.

    17 So he put them in warde three dayes.

    18 Then Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This do, and liue: for I feare God.

    19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your prison house, and goe ye, carie foode for the famine of your houses:

    20 But bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they did so.

    21 And they said one to another, We haue verily sinned against our brother, in that we sawe the anguish of his soule, when he besought vs, and we would not heare him: therefore is this trouble come vpon vs.

  • Gen 42:12-14
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    12 But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.

    13 And they said, We thy seruants are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan: and beholde, the yongest is this day with our father, and one is not.

    14 Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.

  • Gen 42:32-35
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    32 We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is not, and the yongest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

    33 Then the Lord of the countrey sayde vnto vs, Hereby shal I knowe if ye be true men: Leaue one of your brethren with me, and take foode for the famine of your houses and depart,

    34 And bring your yongest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies, but true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and yee shall occupie in the land.

    35 And as they emptied their sacks, behold, euery mans bundel of money was in his sacke: and when they and their father sawe the bundels of their money, they were afrayde.

  • Gen 44:21-23
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    21 Now thou saidest vnto thy seruants, Bring him vnto me, that I may set mine eye vpo him.

    22 And we answered my lord, The childe can not depart from his father: for if he leaue his father, his father would die.

    23 Then saydest thou vnto thy seruants, Except your yonger brother come downe with you, looke in my face no more.

  • Gen 43:2-5
    4 verses
    78%

    2 And when they had eaten vp the vitaile, which they had brought from Egypt, their father sayd vnto them, Turne againe, and bye vs a little foode.

    3 And Iudah answered him, saying, The man charged vs by an othe, saying, Neuer see my face, except your brother be with you.

    4 If thou wilt sende our brother with vs, we will goe downe, and bye thee foode:

    5 But if thou wilt not send him, we wil not go downe: for the man said vnto vs, Looke me not in the face, except your brother be with you.

  • 17 Then Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, Say to thy brethren, This doe ye, lade your beastes & depart, go to the land of Canaan,

  • Gen 44:25-26
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    25 And our father sayde vnto vs, Goe againe, bye vs a litle foode,

    26 Then we answered, We can not go downe: but if our yongest brother go with vs, then will we go downe: for we may not see the mans face, except our yongest brother be with vs.

  • Gen 45:4-5
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    4 Againe, Ioseph sayde to his brethren, Come neere, I pray you, to mee; they came neere; he sayde, I am Ioseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

    5 Nowe therefore be not sad, neither grieued with your selues, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you for your preseruation.

  • 7 And they answered, The man asked straitly of our selues and of our kinred, saying, Is your father yet aliue? haue ye any brother? And wee tolde him according to these wordes: could we knowe certainely that he would say, Bring your brother downe?

  • 5 Then spake Pharaoh to Ioseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come vnto thee.

  • Gen 45:12-13
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    12 And behold, your eyes doe see, and the eyes of my brother Beniamin, that my mouth speaketh to you.

    13 Therefore tel my father of al mine honour in Egypt, and of all that ye haue seene, and make haste, and bring my father hither.

  • Gen 42:2-3
    2 verses
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    2 And he said, Behold, I haue heard that there is foode in Egypt, Get you downe thither, & bie vs foode thence, that we may liue and not die.

    3 So went Iosephs ten brethren downe to bye corne of the Egyptians.

  • 31 Then Ioseph said to his brethren, & to his fathers house, I wil go vp and shew Pharaoh, and tell him, My brethren & my fathers house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come vnto me,

  • 15 Then Ioseph sayd vnto them, What acte is this, which ye haue done? know ye not that such a man as I, can deuine and prophecie?

  • Gen 42:9-10
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    73%

    9 And Ioseph remembred the dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the weaknesse of the land.

    10 But they sayde vnto him, Nay, my lorde, but to bye vitayle thy seruants are come.

  • Gen 43:13-14
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    13 Take also your brother and arise, and go againe to the man.

    14 And God almightie giue you mercie in the sight of the man, that hee may deliuer you your other brother, and Beniamin: but I shall be robbed of my childe, as I haue bene.

  • 7 And when Ioseph sawe his brethren, hee knewe them, and made himselfe straunge toward them, and spake to them roughly, and saide vnto them, Whence come yee? Who answered, Out of the land of Canaan, to bye vitaile.

  • 9 Haste you & go vp to my father, & tel him, Thus saieth thy sonne Ioseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come downe to me, tary not.

  • 13 And at the second time, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, and Iosephs kindred was made knowen vnto Pharao.