Genesis 44:26
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.'
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- Gen 43:4-5 : 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.'"
- Luke 11:7 : 7 and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'?
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- Gen 44:19-257 verses88%
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.'
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.'
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.'
- Gen 43:2-87 verses87%
2It 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."
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.'"
6Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"
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 42:31-344 verses81%
31We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.
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.
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.'"
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27Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:
- Gen 44:30-345 verses79%
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."
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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."
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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."
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15By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
- Gen 42:20-212 verses76%
20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.
21They 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."
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10for if we hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a second time by now."
- Gen 42:2-43 verses73%
2He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
3Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
4But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."
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22We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."
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20and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food.
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8Behold, 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?
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13Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.
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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."