Genesis 44:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • 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 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 42:15-20 : 15 Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shal not goe hence, except your yongest brother come hither. 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.

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  • Gen 44:24-27
    4 verses
    88%

    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,

  • Gen 43:2-8
    7 verses
    87%

    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 44:17-22
    6 verses
    85%

    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.

    18Then Iudah drewe neere vnto him, and sayde, O my Lord, let thy seruant nowe speake a worde in my lordes eares, and let not thy wrath be kindled against thy seruant: for thou art euen as Pharaoh.

    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.

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

  • Gen 42:13-15
    3 verses
    82%

    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.

  • Gen 42:20
    81%

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

  • Gen 45:12-13
    2 verses
    80%

    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 44:29-34
    6 verses
    79%

    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 42:32-34
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Gen 42:38
    76%

    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 43:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    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 45:9
    76%

    9Haste 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.

  • Gen 46:31
    75%

    31Then 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,

  • Gen 44:7
    75%

    7And they answered him, Wherefore sayeth my lorde such wordes? God forbid that thy seruants should do such a thing.

  • Gen 47:5
    74%

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

  • Gen 50:18
    74%

    18Also his brethren came vnto him, and fell downe before his face, and sayde, Beholde, we be thy seruants.

  • Gen 45:4
    74%

    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.

  • Gen 45:17
    74%

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

  • Gen 45:24
    74%

    24So sent he his brethren away, and they departed: and he sayde vnto them, Fall not out by the way.