Genesis 43:7

World English Bible (2000)

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 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 43:27 : 27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
  • Gen 42:13 : 13 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

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  • Gen 43:2-6
    5 verses
    87%

    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,

    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?"

  • Gen 42:29-34
    6 verses
    81%

    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.'"

  • Gen 44:19-27
    9 verses
    81%

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

    20 We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'

    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:

  • 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.

  • Gen 43:27-28
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    27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"

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

  • Gen 42:20-21
    2 verses
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    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 42:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."

    14 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!'

    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 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?

  • 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."

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

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

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

  • 27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

  • 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."

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

  • 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.

  • 3 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

  • 31 Joseph 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.

  • 14 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.