Genesis 42:4

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But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said,“What if some accident happens to him?”

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  • Gen 42:38 : 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.”
  • Gen 43:14 : 14 May the Sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”
  • Gen 43:29 : 29 When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he said,“Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?” Then he said,“May God be gracious to you, my son.”
  • Gen 44:20-22 : 20 We said to my lord,‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’ 21 “Then you told your servants,‘Bring him down to me so I can see him.’ 22 We said to my lord,‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’
  • Gen 44:27-34 : 27 “Then your servant my father said to us,‘You know that my wife gave me two sons. 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.’ 33 “So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers. 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 3:22 : 22 And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
  • Gen 11:4 : 4 Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”
  • Gen 33:1-2 : 1 Jacob Meets Esau Jacob looked up and saw that Esau was coming along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants. 2 He put the servants and their children in front, with Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph behind them.
  • Gen 35:16-19 : 16 They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor– and her labor was hard. 17 When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her,“Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.” 18 With her dying breath, she named him Ben Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead. 19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath(that is, Bethlehem).

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  • Gen 42:36-38
    3 verses
    77%

    36Their 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.”

    37Then 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.”

    38But 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.”

  • Gen 45:24
    76%

    24Then he sent his brothers on their way and they left. He said to them,“As you travel don’t be overcome with fear.”

  • Gen 42:3
    76%

    3So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 43:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14May the Sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”

    15So the men took these gifts, and they took double the money with them, along with Benjamin. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

  • Gen 44:34
    74%

    34For 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 43:3-6
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    3But Judah said to him,“The man solemnly warned us,‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

    4If you send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy food for you.

    5But if you will not send him, we won’t go down there because the man said to us,‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”

    6Israel said,“Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?”

  • Gen 37:27
    73%

    27Come, 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.

  • Gen 44:26
    72%

    26But we replied,‘We cannot go down there. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, for we won’t be permitted to see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’

  • Gen 42:5
    72%

    5So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 44:23
    72%

    23But you said to your servants,‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’

  • Gen 42:15
    72%

    15You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

  • Gen 50:15
    72%

    15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said,“What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?”

  • Gen 37:14
    72%

    14So 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.