Genesis 44:22
And we answered my lord, The childe can not depart from his father: for if he leaue his father, his father would die.
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- Gen 42:38 : 38 But 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 44:30 : 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)
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- Gen 44:19-213 verses87%
19My Lord asked his seruants, saying, Haue ye a father, or a brother?
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.
- Gen 44:23-3412 verses85%
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.
27Then thy seruant my father sayde vnto vs, Ye knowe that my wife bare me two sonnes,
28And the one went out from me, and I said, Of a suretie he is torne in pieces, and I sawe him not since.
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.
33Nowe 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.
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 43:7-93 verses81%
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.
- Gen 42:36-383 verses80%
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.
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.
- Gen 42:32-332 verses78%
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,
- Gen 43:3-53 verses78%
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.
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7And they answered him, Wherefore sayeth my lorde such wordes? God forbid that thy seruants should do such a thing.
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17But he answered, God forbid, that I should doe so, but the man, with whome the cuppe is founde, he shalbe my seruant, and go ye in peace vnto your father.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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13Then he answered him, My lord knoweth, that the children are tender, & the ewes & kine with yong vnder mine hande: and if they should ouerdriue them one day, all the flocke would die.
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13And that yee will saue aliue my father and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue: and that yee will deliuer our soules from death.
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16Therefore they sent vnto Ioseph, saying, Thy father commanded before his death, saying,