Genesis 44:16

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Gen 44:9 : 9 With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."
  • Dan 9:7 : 7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
  • Num 32:23 : 23 "But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
  • Deut 25:1 : 1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
  • Josh 7:1 : 1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh's anger burned against the children of Israel.
  • Josh 7:18 : 18 He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.
  • Judg 1:7 : 7 Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
  • Ezra 9:10 : 10 "Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
  • Ezra 9:15 : 15 Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this."
  • Job 40:4 : 4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
  • Prov 17:15 : 15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
  • Prov 28:17 : 17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.
  • Isa 5:3 : 3 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
  • Isa 27:9 : 9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
  • Luke 12:2 : 2 But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.
  • Acts 2:37 : 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
  • Gen 37:7 : 7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
  • Gen 37:9 : 9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
  • Gen 37:18-28 : 18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. 19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes. 20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams." 21 Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life." 22 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. 23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him; 24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it. 25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? 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. 28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
  • Gen 42:21-22 : 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." 22 Reuben 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 43:8-9 : 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 44:32 : 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.'

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  • Gen 44:17-19
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    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."

    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 44:7-10
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    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?

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

    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."

  • Gen 44:14-15
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    14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

    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?"

  • Gen 50:17-18
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    17 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

    18 His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

  • Gen 44:5
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    5 Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"

  • Gen 42:21
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    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 44:32-33
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    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.

  • Gen 47:25
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    25 They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."

  • Gen 37:26
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    26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

  • Gen 43:7
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    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?'"

  • Gen 44:2
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    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 42:10
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    10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

  • Gen 44:24
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    24 It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

  • Gen 47:18
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    18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.