Genesis 43:9

World English Bible (2000)

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,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 42:37 : 37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."
  • Gen 44:32-33 : 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.' 33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
  • Phlm 1:18-19 : 18 But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my account. 19 I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).
  • Heb 7:22 : 22 By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.
  • Gen 9:5 : 5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
  • Gen 31:39 : 39 That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
  • 1 Kgs 1:21 : 21 Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders."
  • Job 17:3 : 3 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
  • Ps 119:122 : 122 Ensure your servant's well-being. Don't let the proud oppress me.
  • Ezek 3:18 : 18 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
  • Ezek 3:20 : 20 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
  • Ezek 33:6 : 6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
  • Ezek 33:8 : 8 When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
  • Luke 11:50 : 50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 44:29-34
    6 verses
    88%

    29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

    30Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life;

    31it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

    32For 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.'

    33Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.

    34For 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 43:7-8
    2 verses
    79%

    7They 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?'"

    8Judah 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 42:37-38
    2 verses
    76%

    37Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."

    38He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

  • Gen 43:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    3Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'

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

    5but 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 43:10
    74%

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

  • Gen 43:12-15
    4 verses
    74%

    12and 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.

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

    14May 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."

    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.

  • Gen 44:17
    74%

    17He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."

  • Gen 44:21-23
    3 verses
    73%

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

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

    23You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'

  • Job 17:3
    72%

    3"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

  • Gen 46:4
    72%

    4I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."

  • Gen 44:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

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

    10He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless."

  • Gen 50:5
    71%

    5'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"

  • Gen 24:41
    71%

    41Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'

  • Gen 28:15
    71%

    15Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."

  • Gen 42:33-34
    2 verses
    71%

    33The 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.

    34Bring 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 27:45
    70%

    45until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

  • Gen 42:20
    70%

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

  • Gen 45:13
    70%

    13You 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."

  • Josh 2:19
    70%

    19It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

  • Gen 42:22
    70%

    22Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."

  • Gen 24:8
    70%

    8If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."

  • 1 Sam 24:12
    70%

    12May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.

  • Gen 31:39
    70%

    39That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

  • Prov 6:1
    70%

    1My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

  • Josh 2:13
    70%

    13and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death."

  • Gen 27:12
    69%

    12What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."