Genesis 42:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

But bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your words be proven true, and you shall not die. And they did so.

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  • Gen 42:34 : 34 And bring your youngest brother to me: then shall I know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men: so will I deliver you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.
  • Gen 43:5 : 5 But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.
  • Gen 44:23 : 23 And you said to your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.
  • Gen 42:15 : 15 Hereby you shall be tested: By the life of Pharaoh you shall not go forth from here, except your youngest brother come here.
  • Gen 42:26 : 26 And they loaded their donkeys with the grain, and departed from there.
  • Gen 43:19 : 19 And they drew near to the steward of Joseph's house, and spoke with him at the door of the house,
  • John 2:5 : 5 His mother said to the servants, Whatever he tells you, do it.
  • Gen 6:22 : 22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

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  • Gen 42:13-19
    7 verses
    85%

    13And they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.

    14And Joseph said to them, That is it that I spoke to you, saying, You are spies:

    15Hereby you shall be tested: By the life of Pharaoh you shall not go forth from here, except your youngest brother come here.

    16Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and you shall be kept in prison, that your words may be tested, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.

    17And he put them all together into custody for three days.

    18And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

    19If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison: go, carry grain for the famine of your houses:

  • Gen 42:32-35
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    84%

    32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

    33And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, Hereby shall I know that you are honest men; leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:

    34And bring your youngest brother to me: then shall I know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men: so will I deliver you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.

    35And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

  • Gen 44:20-26
    7 verses
    81%

    20And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.

    21And you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him.

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

    23And you said to your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall see my face no more.

    24And it came to pass when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

    25And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

    26And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.

  • Gen 42:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

    21And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.

    22And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and you would not listen? therefore, behold, his blood is now required.

  • Gen 43:2-8
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    79%

    2And it came to pass, when they had consumed the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food.

    3And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man solemnly warned us, saying, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.

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

    5But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.

    6And Israel said, Why did you deal so wrongfully with me, as to tell the man whether you had yet a brother?

    7And they said, The man asked us specifically about our state and kindred, saying, Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? And we answered him according to these words: could we know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

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

  • Gen 45:12-13
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    12And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

    13And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen; and you shall hurry and bring my father down here.

  • Gen 44:31-32
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    75%

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

    32For your servant became a guarantee for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.

  • Gen 43:13-14
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    75%

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

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

  • Gen 42:2-3
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    2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: go down there, and buy for us from there; that we may live, and not die.

    3And Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

  • Gen 45:4
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    4And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

  • Gen 42:29
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    29And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them; saying,

  • Gen 42:37-38
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    74%

    37And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I do not bring him back to you: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him back to you again.

    38And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left: if harm befalls him on the journey in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

  • Gen 44:2
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    2And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, along with his grain money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

  • Gen 50:16
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    16And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Your father did command before he died, saying,

  • Gen 43:17
    73%

    17And the man did as Joseph ordered; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.

  • Gen 50:24
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    24And Joseph said unto his brothers, I die, and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.