Genesis 42:37
Then 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.
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- Gen 46:9 : 9 And the sonnes of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
- Mic 6:7 : 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand riuers of oyle? shall I giue my first borne for my transgression, euen the fruite of my bodie, for the sinne of my soule?
- Gen 43:9 : 9 I wil be suertie for him: of mine hand shalt thou require him. If I bring him not to thee, and set him before thee, then let me beare the blame for euer.
- Gen 44:32-34 : 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?
Similar Verses (AI)
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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.
- Gen 37:20-223 verses82%
20Come now therefore, and let vs slay him, and cast him into some pitte, and wee will say, A wicked beast hath deuoured him: then wee shall see, what will come of his dreames.
21But when Reuben heard that, he deliuered him out of their handes, and saide, Let vs not kill him.
22Also Reuben saide vnto them, Shed not blood, but cast him into this pitte that is in the wildernesse, and lay no hande vpon him. Thus he said, that he might deliuer him out of their hand, and restore him to his father againe.
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36Then Iaakob their father said to them, Ye haue robbed me of my children: Ioseph is not, & Simeon is not, and ye will take Beniamin: all these things are against me.
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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 44:29-324 verses77%
29Nowe yee take this also away from me: if death take him, then yee shall bring my graye head in sorowe to the graue.
30Nowe therefore, when I come to thy seruant my father, & the childe be not with vs (seeing that his life dependeth on the childes life)
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 43:7-93 verses76%
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.
9I wil be suertie for him: of mine hand shalt thou require him. If I bring him not to thee, and set him before thee, then let me beare the blame for euer.
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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 37:29-302 verses76%
29Afterwarde Reuben returned to the pit, and beholde, Ioseph was not in the pit: then he rent his clothes,
30And returned to his brethren, and said, The childe is not yonder, and I, whither shall I goe?
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34For 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?
- Gen 44:21-233 verses76%
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.
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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.
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27Then thy seruant my father sayde vnto vs, Ye knowe that my wife bare me two sonnes,
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20But 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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9And Ioseph sayd vnto his father, They are my sonnes, which God hath giuen mee here. Then he sayd, I pray thee, bring them to me, that I may blesse them:
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29And they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen them, saying,
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4But Beniamin Iosephs brother woulde not Iaakob send with his brethren: for he saide, Least death should befall him.
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5My father made me sweare, saying, Loe, I die, bury me in my graue, which I haue made me in the land of Canaan: now therefore let me go, I pray thee, & bury my father, & I wil come againe.
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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.
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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.