Genesis 43:21

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Gen 43:12 : 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 43:15 : 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.
  • Rom 12:17 : 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
  • Rom 13:8 : 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."
  • Heb 13:18 : 18 Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
  • 1 Pet 2:12 : 12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
  • 1 Pet 3:16 : 16 having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
  • Gen 42:27-35 : 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. 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, 30 "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. 31 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies. 32 We 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.' 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. 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.'" 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 43:22-24
    3 verses
    89%

    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.

  • Gen 42:25-29
    5 verses
    82%

    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.

    26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

    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.

    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 44:7-9
    3 verses
    82%

    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?

    9 With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."

  • Gen 43:17-20
    4 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,

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

  • Gen 43:12-13
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

    13 Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.

  • Gen 42:33-35
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

    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.'"

    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 44:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    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 44:11
    75%

    11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.

  • Gen 43:15
    74%

    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 43:7
    73%

    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 44:24-26
    3 verses
    72%

    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 47:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    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 43:2-4
    3 verses
    71%

    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 47:18
    71%

    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.

  • Gen 43:10
    70%

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

  • Gen 31:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15 Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

    16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

  • Gen 42:21
    70%

    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 42:31
    68%

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

  • Gen 42:10
    68%

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

  • Gen 46:32
    68%

    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.'