Genesis 43:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

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  • Gen 42:37 : 37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
  • Gen 44:32-33 : 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
  • Phlm 1:18-19 : 18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth [thee] ought, put that on mine account; 19 I Paul have written [it] with mine own hand, I will repay [it]: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
  • Heb 7:22 : 22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
  • Gen 9:5 : 5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
  • Gen 31:39 : 39 That which was torn [of beasts] I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, [whether] stolen by day, or stolen by night.
  • 1 Kgs 1:21 : 21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
  • Job 17:3 : 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
  • Ps 119:122 : 122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
  • Ezek 3:18 : 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
  • Ezek 3:20 : 20 Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
  • Ezek 33:6 : 6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take [any] person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
  • Ezek 33:8 : 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked [man], thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
  • Luke 11:50 : 50 ‹That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;›

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 44:29-34
    6 verses
    88%

    29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

    30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad [be] not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

    31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad [is] not [with us], that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

    32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

    33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

    34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

  • Gen 43:7-8
    2 verses
    79%

    7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, [Is] your father yet alive? have ye [another] brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

    8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, [and] also our little ones.

  • Gen 42:37-38
    2 verses
    76%

    37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

    38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

  • Gen 43:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you.

    4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:

    5 But if thou wilt not send [him], we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother [be] with you.

  • Gen 43:10
    74%

    10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

  • Gen 43:12-15
    4 verses
    74%

    12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry [it] again in your hand; peradventure it [was] an oversight:

    13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:

    14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved [of my children], I am bereaved.

    15 ¶ And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

  • Gen 44:17
    74%

    17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: [but] the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

  • Gen 44:21-23
    3 verses
    73%

    21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

    22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for [if] he should leave his father, [his father] would die.

    23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

  • Job 17:3
    72%

    3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?

  • Gen 46:4
    72%

    4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up [again]: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

  • Gen 44:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.

    10 And he said, Now also [let] it [be] according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.

  • Gen 50:5
    71%

    5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

  • Gen 24:41
    71%

    41 Then shalt thou be clear from [this] my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee [one], thou shalt be clear from my oath.

  • Gen 28:15
    71%

    15 And, behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in all [places] whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have spoken to thee of.

  • Gen 42:33-34
    2 verses
    71%

    33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye [are] true [men]; leave one of your brethren [here] with me, and take [food for] the famine of your households, and be gone:

    34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye [are] no spies, but [that] ye [are] true [men: so] will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.

  • Gen 27:45
    70%

    45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget [that] which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?

  • Gen 42:20
    70%

    20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

  • Gen 45:13
    70%

    13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.

  • Josh 2:19
    70%

    19 And it shall be, [that] whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we [will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if [any] hand be upon him.

  • Gen 42:22
    70%

    22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.

  • Gen 24:8
    70%

    8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.

  • 1 Sam 24:12
    70%

    12 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

  • Gen 31:39
    70%

    39 That which was torn [of beasts] I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, [whether] stolen by day, or stolen by night.

  • Prov 6:1
    70%

    1 ¶ My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

  • Josh 2:13
    70%

    13 And [that] ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

  • Gen 27:12
    69%

    12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.