Genesis 43:26

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Gen 42:6 : 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.
  • Gen 37:7-9 : 7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf." 8 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words. 9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me." 10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"
  • Gen 37:19-20 : 19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes. 20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
  • Gen 27:29 : 29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
  • Gen 43:28 : 28 They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed the head, and did homage.
  • Ps 72:9 : 9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.
  • Rom 14:11 : 11 For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"
  • Phil 2:10-11 : 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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  • Gen 43:24-25
    2 verses
    83%

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

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

  • Gen 42:5-7
    3 verses
    82%

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

    6Joseph 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.

    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 44:14
    81%

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

  • Gen 48:12
    81%

    12Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

  • Gen 33:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

    7Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

  • Gen 43:15-17
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

    16When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon."

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

  • Gen 50:18
    77%

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

  • Gen 33:3
    77%

    3He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

  • Gen 43:27-28
    2 verses
    76%

    27He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"

    28They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed the head, and did homage.

  • Gen 24:52
    75%

    52It happened that when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

  • Gen 43:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Gen 23:12
    73%

    12Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

  • Gen 45:4
    73%

    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.

  • Gen 46:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

    29Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

  • Gen 42:25
    72%

    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.

  • Gen 47:5
    72%

    5Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

  • Gen 24:26
    72%

    26The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.

  • Gen 46:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

    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 41:43
    72%

    43and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 47:7
    71%

    7Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • Gen 43:2
    71%

    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."

  • Gen 42:3
    71%

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

  • Gen 47:1
    71%

    1Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen."

  • Gen 45:9
    71%

    9Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.

  • Gen 45:16
    71%

    16The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

  • Gen 42:29
    71%

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

  • Gen 47:12
    70%

    12Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.