Genesis 43:31

World English Bible (2000)

He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, "Serve the meal."

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 45:1 : 1 Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause everyone to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
  • Isa 42:14 : 14 "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
  • Jer 31:16 : 16 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
  • 1 Pet 3:10 : 10 For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

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    32They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

    33They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.

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    30Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

  • Gen 43:24-25
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    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 45:1-2
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    1Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause everyone to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

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    1The famine was severe in the land.

    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."

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  • Gen 39:6
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    6He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.

  • Gen 47:12
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    12Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

  • Gen 43:15-17
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    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.

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    55When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

  • Gen 42:6-7
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    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.

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    15He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

  • Gen 42:24-25
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    24He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    30He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.