Genesis 43:20

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 42:3 : 3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
  • Gen 42:10 : 10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
  • Gen 42:27 : 27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
  • Gen 42:35 : 35 It 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 43:3 : 3 Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
  • Gen 43:7 : 7 They 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?'"

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  • Gen 42:10
    83%

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

  • Gen 43:21-26
    6 verses
    82%

    21 When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.

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

    23 He said, "Peace be to you. Don't be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money." He brought Simeon out to them.

    24 The man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.

    25 They prepared the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

    26 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to him to the earth.

  • Gen 43:17-19
    3 verses
    81%

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

    18 The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys."

    19 They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

  • Gen 43:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1 The famine was severe in the land.

    2 It 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."

    3 Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'

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

  • Gen 44:23-26
    4 verses
    78%

    23 You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'

    24 It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

    25 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

    26 We 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 42:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 He 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."

    3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 44:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

    8 Behold, 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 43:7
    76%

    7 They 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?'"

  • Gen 43:15
    76%

    15 The 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 42:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

    6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

    7 Joseph 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 47:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

    19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

  • Gen 44:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 He 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.

    2 Put 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.

  • Gen 42:33
    74%

    33 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.

  • Gen 42:25
    73%

    25 Then 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.

  • Gen 47:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

    15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."

  • Gen 43:10
    72%

    10 for if we hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now."

  • Gen 42:35
    72%

    35 It 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 50:18
    72%

    18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

  • Gen 42:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

    29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

  • Gen 43:12
    72%

    12 and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

  • Gen 42:31
    72%

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

  • Gen 47:4
    72%

    4 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

  • Gen 46:32
    71%

    32 These 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 42:21
    71%

    21 They 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."

  • Gen 44:14
    71%

    14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.