Genesis 43:10
But if we had not delayed, we could have traveled there and back twice by now!”
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- Gen 19:16 : 16 When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the LORD had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.
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- Gen 43:2-98 verses74%
2 When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them,“Return, buy us a little more food.”
3 But Judah said to him,“The man solemnly warned us,‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’
4 If you send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy food for you.
5 But 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.’”
6 Israel said,“Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?”
7 They replied,“The man questioned us thoroughly about ourselves and our family, saying,‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered him in this way. How could we possibly know that he would say,‘Bring your brother down’?”
8 Then Judah said to his father Israel,“Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die– we and you and our little ones.
9 I myself pledge security for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.
- Gen 44:22-276 verses74%
22 We said to my lord,‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’
23 But you said to your servants,‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’
24 When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25 “Then our father said,‘Go back and buy us a little food.’
26 But 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.’
27 “Then your servant my father said to us,‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.
- Gen 43:11-155 verses74%
11 Then their father Israel said to them,“If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man– a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.
12 Take double the money with you; you must take back the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks– perhaps it was an oversight.
13 Take your brother too, and go right away to the man.
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.”
15 So 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 44:32-343 verses73%
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 43:20-223 verses72%
20 They said,“My lord, we did indeed come down the first time to buy food.
21 But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money– the full amount– in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it.
22 We have brought additional money with us to buy food. We do not know who put the money in our sacks!”
- Gen 42:30-345 verses71%
30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.
31 But we said to him,‘We are honest men; we are not spies!
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.’
33 “Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us,‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.
34 But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are honest men and not spies. Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.’”
- Gen 44:7-82 verses71%
7 They answered him,“Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
8 Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
- Gen 42:20-212 verses70%
20 But you must bring your youngest brother to me. Then your words will be verified and you will not die.” They did as he said.
21 They said to one another,“Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!”
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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.
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15 In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.
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3 Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
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18 But the men were afraid when they were brought to Joseph’s house. They said,“We are being brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks last time. He wants to capture us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys!”
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13 “You must not disobey the LORD your God by saying,‘We will not stay in this land.’
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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.’
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18 We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.
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9 If they say to us,‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay right there and not go up to them.
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31 Moses said,“Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.
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15 You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
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24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that in the future your descendants would say to our descendants,‘What relationship do you have with the LORD God of Israel?