Genesis 44:22

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 42:38 : 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 44:30 : 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;

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  • Gen 44:19-21
    3 verses
    87%

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

    20We 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.'

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

  • Gen 44:23-34
    12 verses
    85%

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

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

    25Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

    26We 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.'

    27Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:

    28and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.

    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 43:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

    9I'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 42:36-38
    3 verses
    80%

    36Jacob, 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."

    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 42:32-33
    2 verses
    78%

    32We 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.'

    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.

  • Gen 43:3-5
    3 verses
    78%

    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 44:7
    75%

    7They 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!

  • Gen 44:17
    75%

    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 42:13
    75%

    13They 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."

  • Gen 42:20
    75%

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

  • Gen 43:14
    75%

    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."

  • Gen 45:13
    74%

    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."

  • Gen 50:5
    74%

    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 33:13
    73%

    13Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

  • Josh 2:13
    73%

    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 50:16
    73%

    16They sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father commanded before he died, saying,