Genesis 42:18
Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 25:43 : 43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
- Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.
- Gen 20:11 : 11 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'
- Luke 18:2 : 2 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.
- Luke 18:4 : 4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
- Neh 5:9 : 9 Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
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- Gen 42:14-174 verses83%
14Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.'
15Hereby you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother come here.
16Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
17He put them all together into custody three days.
- Gen 42:19-202 verses80%
19If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison-house; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.
- Gen 50:17-193 verses78%
17"So 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.
18His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."
19Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
- Gen 45:3-53 verses73%
3Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
4Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
5Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
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18Joseph answered, "This is the interpretation of it. The three baskets are three days.
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15Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
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21Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
- Gen 43:17-182 verses72%
17The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.
18The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall on us, and take us for bondservants, along with our donkeys."
- Gen 42:2-32 verses72%
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.
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33The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'Hereby will I 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.
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28He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is even in my sack." Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"
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17Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.
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3He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt; for there I will make of you a great nation.
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24Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
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17But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
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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!
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12Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days.
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6Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
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40that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
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35It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
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9He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
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25Then Joseph commanded to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it done to them.
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55When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."