Genesis 42:33

World English Bible (2000)

The 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.

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  • Gen 42:19-20 : 19 If 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. 20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.
  • 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.

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  • Gen 42:34-35
    2 verses
    89%

    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 42:30-32
    3 verses
    85%

    30"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

    31We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

    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.'

  • Gen 42:19-20
    2 verses
    84%

    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.

    20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.

  • Gen 42:10-16
    7 verses
    81%

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

    11We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

    12He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

    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."

  • Gen 43:2-8
    7 verses
    81%

    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 44:22-27
    6 verses
    79%

    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.'

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

  • Gen 42:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Gen 44:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

    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.'

    33Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

  • Gen 43:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    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."

    15The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

  • Gen 42:7
    76%

    7Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

  • Gen 44:8
    75%

    8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?

  • Gen 44:1
    75%

    1He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in his sack's mouth.

  • Gen 44:20
    75%

    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.'

  • Gen 43:17
    75%

    17The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.

  • Gen 43:22
    75%

    22We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."

  • Gen 45:17
    74%

    17Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 43:20
    74%

    20and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.

  • Gen 46:32
    74%

    32These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

  • Gen 42:25
    74%

    25Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.