Genesis 44:12

World English Bible (2000)

He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

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  • Gen 42:36-38 : 36 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me." 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." 38 He 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 43:14 : 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."
  • Gen 43:33 : 33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.
  • Gen 44:2 : 2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
  • Gen 44:26-32 : 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: 28 and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since. 29 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.' 30 Now 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; 31 it 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. 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.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 44:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10 He 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."

    11 Then they hurried, and each man took his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.

  • Gen 44:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1 He 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.

    2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

    3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

  • Gen 44:13
    77%

    13 Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

  • Gen 42:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    35 It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

    36 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."

  • Gen 42:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

    28 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"

  • Gen 43:33-34
    2 verses
    73%

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

    34 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

  • Gen 43:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

    16 When 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."

  • Gen 44:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

    16 Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."

    17 He 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 44:8
    71%

    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?

  • Gen 45:22
    70%

    22 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.

  • Gen 42:25
    70%

    25 Then 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 45:14
    69%

    14 He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

  • Gen 37:32
    69%

    32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."

  • Gen 43:29
    68%

    29 He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."

  • Gen 37:15
    68%

    15 A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

  • Exod 1:3
    68%

    3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

  • Gen 43:22
    68%

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

  • Gen 44:5
    68%

    5 Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"