Genesis 37:30
returned to his brothers, and said,“The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”
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- Gen 42:13 : 13 They replied,“Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive.”
- Gen 42:32 : 32 We are from a family of twelve brothers; we are the sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father at this time in the land of Canaan.’
- Jer 31:15 : 15 The LORD says,“A sound is heard in Ramah, a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone.”
- Gen 37:20 : 20 Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”
- Gen 42:35-36 : 35 When they were emptying their sacks, there was each man’s bag of money in his sack! When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were afraid. 36 Their father Jacob said to them,“You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”
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29 Later Reuben returned to the cistern to find that Joseph was not in it! He tore his clothes,
- Gen 37:31-355 verses77%
31 So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
32 Then they brought the special tunic to their father and said,“We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”
33 He recognized it and exclaimed,“It is my son’s tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.
35 All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled.“No,” he said,“I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.
- Gen 42:36-383 verses77%
36 Their father Jacob said to them,“You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”
37 Then Reuben said to his father,“You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care and I will bring him back to you.”
38 But Jacob replied,“My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.”
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34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”
- Gen 44:28-325 verses75%
28 The first disappeared and I said,“He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.
29 If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’
30 “So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us– his very life is bound up in his son’s life.
31 When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.
32 Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’
- Gen 37:16-172 verses75%
16 He replied,“I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks.”
17 The man said,“They left this area, for I heard them say,‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
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22 Reuben said to them,“Didn’t I say to you,‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!”
- Gen 37:12-143 verses73%
12 When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,
13 Israel said to Joseph,“Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.”“I’m ready,” Joseph replied.
14 So Jacob said to him,“Go now and check on the welfare of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word.” So Jacob sent him from the valley of Hebron.
- Gen 37:22-243 verses73%
22 Reuben continued,“Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.”(Reuben said this so he could rescue Joseph from them and take him back to his father.)
23 When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.
24 Then they took him and threw him into the cistern.(Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)
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31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household,“I will go up and tell Pharaoh,‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.
- Gen 45:3-42 verses72%
3 Joseph said to his brothers,“I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” His brothers could not answer him because they were dumbfounded before him.
4 Joseph said to his brothers,“Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said,“I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
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30 Joseph hurried out, for he was overcome by affection for his brother and was at the point of tears. So he went to his room and wept there.
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22 We said to my lord,‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’
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14 After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
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13 They replied,“Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive.”
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5 ‘My father made me swear an oath. He said,“I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”
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27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed.
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24 He turned away from them and wept. When he turned around and spoke to them again, he had Simeon taken from them and tied up before their eyes.
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20 Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”