Genesis 44:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 42:29-34 : 29 And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them; saying, 30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. 31 And we said to him, We are honest men; we are not spies: 32 We 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. 33 And 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: 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.

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  • Gen 44:17-23
    7 verses
    85%

    17And 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, go up in peace to your father.

    18Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant: for you are even as Pharaoh.

    19My lord asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or a brother?

    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.

  • Gen 44:25-27
    3 verses
    85%

    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.

    27And your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons:

  • Gen 43:2-8
    7 verses
    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 44:30-34
    5 verses
    79%

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

    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.

    33Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant stay instead of the lad as a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.

    34For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad is not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come upon my father.

  • Gen 43:20
    78%

    20And said, O sir, we indeed came down the first time to buy food:

  • Gen 42:29-30
    2 verses
    78%

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

    30The man, who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

  • Gen 44:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7And they said to him, Why does my lord say these words? God forbid that your servants should do such a thing as this:

    8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan: how then should we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?

  • Gen 45:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    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 42:10
    76%

    10And they said to him, No, my lord, but to buy food your servants have come.

  • Gen 45:9
    75%

    9Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.

  • Gen 46:31
    75%

    31And Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's household, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

  • Gen 47:5
    75%

    5And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you:

  • Gen 42:32-34
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Gen 42:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20But bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your words be proven true, and you shall not die. And they did so.

    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.

  • Gen 45:25
    74%

    25And they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father,

  • Gen 42:13
    73%

    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.

  • Gen 50:18
    73%

    18And his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, Behold, we are your servants.

  • Gen 45:4
    73%

    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 50:16
    73%

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

  • Gen 43:22
    72%

    22And other money we have brought down in our hands to buy food: we do not know who put our money in our sacks.

  • Gen 47:1
    72%

    1Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, saying, My father and my brothers, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 47:18
    72%

    18When that year ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord, that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands: