Genesis 42:20

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 43:5 : 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.
  • Gen 44:23 : 23 Then saydest thou vnto thy seruants, Except your yonger brother come downe with you, looke in my face no more.
  • Gen 42:15 : 15 Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shal not goe hence, except your yongest brother come hither.
  • Gen 42:26 : 26 And they layed their vitaile vpon their asses, and departed thence.
  • Gen 43:19 : 19 Therefore came they to Iosephs stewarde, & communed with him at the doore of ye house.
  • John 2:5 : 5 His mother saide vnto the seruants, Whatsoeuer he sayeth vnto you, doe it.
  • Gen 6:22 : 22 Noah therefore did according vnto all, that God commanded him: euen so did he.

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  • Gen 42:13-19
    7 verses
    85%

    13And 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.

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

    15Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shal not goe hence, except your yongest brother come hither.

    16Send 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.

    17So he put them in warde three dayes.

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

    19If 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:

  • Gen 42:32-35
    4 verses
    84%

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

    33Then 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,

    34And 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.

    35And 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 44:20-26
    7 verses
    81%

    20And 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.

    21Now thou saidest vnto thy seruants, Bring him vnto me, that I may set mine eye vpo him.

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

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

    24So when we came vnto thy seruant our father, and shewed him what my lord had sayd,

    25And our father sayde vnto vs, Goe againe, bye vs a litle foode,

    26Then 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 42:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

    21And 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.

    22And Reuben answered them, saying, Warned I not you, saying, Sinne not against the childe, and ye would not heare? and lo, his blood is now required.

  • Gen 43:2-8
    7 verses
    79%

    2And 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.

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

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

    5But 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.

    6And Israel sayd, Wherefore delt ye so euill with me, as to tell the man, whether ye had yet a brother or no?

    7And 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?

    8Then sayde Iudah to Israel his father, Send the boy with mee, that we may rise and goe, and that we may liue and not dye, both we, and thou, and our children.

  • Gen 45:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12And behold, your eyes doe see, and the eyes of my brother Beniamin, that my mouth speaketh to you.

    13Therefore 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 44:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    31Then 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.

    32Doubtlesse 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.

  • Gen 43:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13Take also your brother and arise, and go againe to the man.

    14And 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.

  • Gen 42:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2And 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.

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

  • 4Againe, 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.

  • 29And they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen them, saying,

  • Gen 42:37-38
    2 verses
    74%

    37Then Reuben answered his father, saying, Slay my two sonnes, if I bring him not to thee againe: deliuer him to mine hand, and I will bring him to thee againe.

    38But he sayd, My sonne shall not go downe with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if death come vnto him by the way which ye goe, then ye shall bring my gray head with sorow vnto the graue.

  • 2And put my cup, I meane the siluer cup, in the sackes mouth of the yongest, and his corne money; he did according to the commandement that Ioseph gaue him.

  • 16Therefore they sent vnto Ioseph, saying, Thy father commanded before his death, saying,

  • 17And the man did as Ioseph bad, & brought the men vnto Iosephs house.

  • 24And Ioseph sayd vnto his brethren, I am ready to dye, and God will surely visite you, and bring you out of this land, vnto ye land which hee sware vnto Abraha, vnto Izhak, and vnto Iaakob.