Genesis 43:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 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 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 42:15-20 : 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. 16 Send 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." 17 He put them all together into custody for three days. 18 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God. 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 42:33-34 : 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.'"
  • 2 Sam 3:13 : 13 He said, "Good; I will make a treaty with you; but one thing I require of you. That is, you shall not see my face, unless you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face."
  • 2 Sam 14:24 : 24 The king said, "Let him return to his own house, but let him not see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.
  • 2 Sam 14:28 : 28 Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn't see the king's face.
  • 2 Sam 14:32 : 32 Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'"
  • Acts 7:34 : 34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.'
  • Acts 20:25 : 25 "Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more.
  • Acts 20:38 : 38 sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 43:4-9
    6 verses
    90%

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

    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.'"

    6 Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"

    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?'"

    8 Judah 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.

    9 I'll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,

  • Gen 44:21-27
    7 verses
    87%

    21 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

    22 We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

    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.'

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

  • Gen 42:33-34
    2 verses
    78%

    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.'"

  • Gen 43:2
    78%

    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."

  • Gen 42:15
    78%

    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 43:13-15
    3 verses
    77%

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

    14 May 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."

    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 42:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

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

    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 45:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12 Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

    13 You 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 44:32
    74%

    32 For 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 44:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

    19 My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

  • Gen 46:28
    74%

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

  • Gen 44:34
    74%

    34 For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?--lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

  • Gen 37:26
    74%

    26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?