Genesis 44:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Gen 34:25-31 : 25 And on the thirde day (when they were sore) two of the sonnes of Iaakob, Simeon and Leui, Dinahs brethren tooke either of them his sworde and went into the citie boldly, and slue euery male. 26 They slewe also Hamor and Shechem his sonne with the edge of the sword, & tooke Dinah out of Shechems house, and went their way. 27 Againe the other sonnes of Iaakob came vpon the dead, and spoyled the citie, because they had defiled their sister. 28 They tooke their sheepe & their beeues, and their asses, and whatsoeuer was in the citie, and in the fieldes. 29 Also they caryed away captiue & spoyled all their goods, and all their children and their wiues, and all that was in the houses. 30 Then Iaakob said to Simeon and Leui, Ye haue troubled me, and made me stinke among the inhabitats of the land, aswell the Canaanites, as the Perizzites, and and I being few in nomber, they shall gather theselues together against me, & slay me, and so shall I, and my house be destroied. 31 And they answered, Shoulde hee abuse our sister as a whore?
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 Now, when Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went, and lay with Bilhah his fathers concubine, and it came to Israels eare; Iaakob had twelue sonnes.
  • Gen 37:18-32 : 18 And when they sawe him a farre off, euen before he came at them, they conspired against him for to slay him. 19 For they sayd one to another, Behold, this dreamer commeth. 20 Come 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. 21 But when Reuben heard that, he deliuered him out of their handes, and saide, Let vs not kill him. 22 Also 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. 23 Now when Ioseph was come vnto his brethren, they stript Ioseph out of his coate, his particoloured coate that was vpon him. 24 And they tooke him, and cast him into a pit, and the pit was emptie, without water in it. 25 Then they sate them downe to eate bread: and they lift vp their eyes and looked, and behold, there came a companie of Ishmeelites from Gilead, and their camels laden with spicerie, and balme, and myrrhe, and were going to cary it downe into Egypt. 26 Then Iudah said vnto his brethren, What auaileth it, if we slay our brother, though wee keepe his blood secret? 27 Come and let vs sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our handes be vpon him: for he is our brother and our flesh: and his brethren obeyed. 28 Then the Midianites marchant men passed by, and they drewe foorth, and lift Ioseph out of the pit, and solde Ioseph vnto the Ishmeelites for twentie pieces of siluer: who brought Ioseph into Egypt. 29 Afterwarde Reuben returned to the pit, and beholde, Ioseph was not in the pit: then he rent his clothes, 30 And returned to his brethren, and said, The childe is not yonder, and I, whither shall I goe? 31 And they tooke Iosephs coate, and killed a kidde of the goates, and dipped the coate in the blood. 32 So they sent that particoloured coat, and they brought it vnto their father, and saide, This haue we founde: see nowe, whether it be thy sonnes coate, or no.
  • Gen 38:16-18 : 16 And he turned to the way towardes her, and saide, Come, I pray thee, let me lie with thee. (for he knewe not that she was his daughter in lawe) And she answered, What wilt thou giue me for to lie with me? 17 Then said he, I will sende thee a kid of the goates from the flocke; she said, Well, if thou wilt giue me a pledge, till thou sende it. 18 Then he saide, What is the pledge that I shall giue thee? And she answered, Thy signet, and thy cloke, and thy staffe that is in thine hande. So he gaue it her, and lay by her, and she was with childe by him.
  • Josh 22:22-29 : 22 The Lorde God of gods, the Lorde God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel himselfe shal know: if by rebellion, or by transgression against ye Lord we haue done it, saue thou vs not this day. 23 If we haue built vs an altar to returne away from the Lord, either to offer thereon burnt offering, or meate offering, or to offer peace offerings thereon, let the Lord himselfe require it: 24 And if we haue not rather done it for feare of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might say vnto our children, What haue ye to doe with the Lord God of Israel? 25 For the Lorde hath made Iorden a border betweene vs and you, ye children of Reuben, and of Gad: therefore ye haue no part in the Lord: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord. 26 Therefore we said, We will nowe go about to make vs an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, 27 But it shall be a witnesse betweene vs and you, and betweene our generations after vs, to execute the seruice of the Lorde before him in our burnt offerings, and in our sacrifices, and in our peace offerings, and that your children should not say to our children in time to come, Ye haue no part in the Lord. 28 Therefore said we, If so be that they should so say to vs or to our generations in time to come, then will we answere, Beholde the facion of the altar of the Lorde, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice, but it is a witnesse betweene vs and you. 29 God forbid, that we should rebell against the Lord, and turne this day away from the Lorde to builde an altar for burnt offering, or for meate offering, or for sacrifice, saue the altar of the Lord our God, that is before his Tabernacle.
  • 2 Sam 20:20 : 20 And Ioab answered, & said, God forbid, God forbid it me, that I should deuoure, or destroy it.
  • 2 Kgs 8:13 : 13 Then Hazael said, What? is thy seruant a dog, that I should doe this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lorde hath shewed mee, that thou shalt be King of Aram.
  • Prov 22:1 : 1 A good name is to be chosen aboue great riches, and louing fauour is aboue siluer and aboue golde.
  • Eccl 7:1 : 1 (7:3) A good name is better then a good oyntment, and the day of death, then the day that one is borne.
  • Heb 13:18 : 18 Pray for vs: for we are assured that we haue a good conscience in all things, desiring to liue honestly.

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  • Gen 44:8-10
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    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 44:15-19
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    15Then Ioseph sayd vnto them, What acte is this, which ye haue done? know ye not that such a man as I, can deuine and prophecie?

    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?

  • Gen 42:10-12
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    10But they sayde vnto him, Nay, my lorde, but to bye vitayle thy seruants are come.

    11Wee are all one mans sonnes: wee meane truely, and thy seruants are no spies.

    12But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.

  • Gen 44:4-6
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    4And when they went out of the citie not farre off, Ioseph sayd to his stewarde, Vp, followe after the men: and when thou doest ouertake them, say vnto them, Wherefore haue ye rewarded euill for good?

    5Is that not the cuppe, wherein my Lorde drinketh? and in the which he doeth deuine and prophecie? ye haue done euill in so doing.

    6And when he ouertooke them, he sayde those wordes vnto them.

  • Gen 43:6-7
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    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?

  • Gen 44:21-24
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    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,

  • Gen 44:32-34
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    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 42:28
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    28Then he sayde vnto his brethren, My money is restored: for loe, it is euen in my sacke; their heart fayled them, and they were astonished, and sayde one to another, What is this, that God hath done vnto vs?

  • Gen 50:17-18
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    17Thus shal ye say vnto Ioseph, Forgiue now, I pray thee, the trespasse of thy brethren, and their sinne: for they rewarded thee euil; nowe, we pray thee, forgiue the trespasse of the seruants of thy fathers God; Ioseph wept, when they spake vnto him.

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

  • Gen 44:1-2
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    1Afterward he commanded his steward, saying, Fill the mens sackes with foode, as much as they can carry, and put euery mans money in his sackes mouth.

    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.

  • Gen 43:18
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    18Nowe when the men were brought into Iosephs house, they were afrayd, & sayd, Because of the money, that came in our sackes mouthes at the first time, are we brought, that hee may picke a quarrell against vs, and lay some thing to our charge, and bring vs in bondage and our asses.

  • Gen 47:3-4
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    3Then Pharaoh said vnto his brethren, What is your trade? And they answered Pharaoh, Thy seruants are shepheards, both we and our fathers.

    4They sayde moreouer vnto Pharaoh, For to soiourne in ye lande are we come: for thy seruants haue no pasture for their sheepe, so sore is ye famine in the lande of Canaan. Nowe therefore, we pray thee, let thy seruants dwel in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 42:14
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    14Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.

  • Gen 34:31
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    31And they answered, Shoulde hee abuse our sister as a whore?

  • Gen 42:21
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    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 42:30
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    30The man, who is Lorde of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.

  • Gen 47:18
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    18But when the yeere was ended, they came vnto him the next yeere, and sayd vnto him, We will not hide from my lord, that since our money is spent, and my lord hath the heards of the cattel, there is nothing left in the sight of my lorde, but our bodies and our ground.

  • Gen 43:20
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    20And said, Oh syr, we came in deede down hither at the first time to bye foode,