Genesis 44:32

Geneva Bible (1560)

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.

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  • Gen 43:8-9 : 8 Then 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. 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 43:16 : 16 And whe Ioseph saw Beniamin with them, he sayde to his stewarde, Bring these men home and kill meate, and make ready: for the men shal eate with me at noone.

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  • Gen 44:33-34
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    88%

    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 43:7-9
    3 verses
    88%

    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 44:16-31
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    16Then sayd Iudah, What shall we say vnto my lord? what shall we speake? and howe can we iustifie our selues? God hath found out the wickednesse of thy seruants: beholde, we are seruants to my Lorde, both wee, and he, with whome the cuppe is founde.

    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.

    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.

  • Gen 42:37-38
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    78%

    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 44:7-10
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    7And they answered him, Wherefore sayeth my lorde such wordes? God forbid that thy seruants should do such a thing.

    8Behold, the money which we found in our sackes mouthes, wee brought againe to thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steale out of thy lordes house siluer or golde?

    9With whomesoeuer of thy seruants it bee found, let him dye, and we also will be my lordes bondmen.

    10And he said, Now then let it be according vnto your wordes: he with whome it is found, shal be my seruant, and ye shalbe blamelesse.

  • Gen 31:6
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    6And yee knowe that I haue serued your father with all my might.

  • Gen 42:20-21
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    75%

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

    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.

  • Gen 50:5
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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.

  • Gen 42:33-34
    2 verses
    74%

    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 30:29
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    29But he sayd vnto him, Thou knowest, what seruice I haue done thee, and in what taking thy cattell hath bene vnder me.

  • Gen 32:20
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    20And ye shall say moreouer, Beholde, thy seruant Iaakob commeth after vs (for he thought, I will appease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterwarde I will see his face: it may be that he will accept me.)

  • Gen 43:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    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:

  • Gen 43:14
    74%

    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 24:8
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    8Neuertheles if the woman wil not followe thee, then shalt thou bee discharged of this mine othe: onely bring not my sonne thither againe.

  • Gen 27:45
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    45And till thy brothers wrath turne away from thee, and hee forget the thinges, which thou hast done to him: then will I sende and take thee from thence: why shoulde I bee depriued of you both in one day?

  • Gen 24:5
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    5And the seruant saide to him, What if the woman will not come with me to this land? Shall I bring thy sonne againe vnto the lande from whence thou camest?

  • Gen 24:41
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    41Then shalt thou be discharged of mine othe, when thou commest to my kinred: and if they giue thee not one, thou shalt be free from mine othe.