Genesis 44:32

World English Bible (2000)

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 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 43:16 : 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."

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  • Gen 44:33-34
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    88%

    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.

    34 For 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
    88%

    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?'"

    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 44:16-31
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    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."

    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?'

    20 We 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.'

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

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

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

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

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

    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.

  • Gen 42:37-38
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    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 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 31:6
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    6 You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

  • Gen 42:20-21
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    20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.

    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 50:5
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    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 42:33-34
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    33 The 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.

    34 Bring 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 30:29
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    29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

  • Gen 32:20
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    20 You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

  • Gen 43:3-4
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    3 Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'

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

  • Gen 43:14
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    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 24:8
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    8 If 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."

  • Gen 27:45
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    45 until 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 24:5
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    5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"

  • Gen 24:41
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    41 Then 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.'