Genesis 42:20
Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.
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- Gen 42:34 : 34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"
- Gen 43:5 : 5 but if you'll not send him, we'll 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 You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'
- Gen 42:15 : 15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
- Gen 42:26 : 26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
- Gen 43:19 : 19 They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,
- John 2:5 : 5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."
- Gen 6:22 : 22 Thus Noah did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.
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- Gen 42:13-197 verses85%
13They said, "We, 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."
14Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!'
15By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
16Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
17He put them all together into custody for three days.
18Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.
19If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
- Gen 42:32-354 verses84%
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.'
33The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
34Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"
35It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
- Gen 44:20-267 verses81%
20We 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.'
21You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
22We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'
23You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'
24It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
25Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'
26We said, 'We can't 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 42:21-222 verses79%
21They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."
22Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
- Gen 43:2-87 verses79%
2It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
3Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
4If you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you food,
5but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
6Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"
7They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
8Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
- Gen 45:12-132 verses75%
12Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
13You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here."
- Gen 44:31-322 verses75%
31it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
32For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'
- Gen 43:13-142 verses75%
13Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.
14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
- Gen 42:2-32 verses75%
2He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
3Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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4Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
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29They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
- Gen 42:37-382 verses74%
37Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."
38He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
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2Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
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16They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,
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17The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.
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24Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."