Genesis 43:10

Webster's Bible (1833)

for unless we had lingered, surely we would have returned a second time by now."

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  • Gen 19:16 : 16 But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

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  • Gen 43:2-9
    8 verses
    74%

    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 will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food,

    5but if you will not send him, we will 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 will arise and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

    9I will 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 44:22-27
    6 verses
    74%

    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.'

    26We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then will we 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:

  • Gen 43:11-15
    5 verses
    74%

    11Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it be so now, do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

    12and take double money in your hand, with the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand. Perhaps it was an oversight.

    13Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man.

    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."

    15The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

  • Gen 44:32-34
    3 verses
    73%

    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 43:20-22
    3 verses
    72%

    20and said, "Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:

    21and it happened, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it again in our hand.

    22We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."

  • Gen 42:30-34
    5 verses
    71%

    30"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

    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, '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.

    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.'"

  • Gen 44:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    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!

    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?

  • Gen 42:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    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 most assuredly 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 on us."

  • Gen 44:30
    70%

    30Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;

  • Heb 11:15
    69%

    15If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

  • Num 14:3
    69%

    3Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?

  • Gen 43:18
    69%

    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."

  • Jer 42:13
    68%

    13But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,

  • Gen 44:20
    68%

    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.'

  • Num 32:18
    68%

    18We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

  • 1 Sam 14:9
    68%

    9If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.

  • Num 10:31
    68%

    31He said, Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you shall be to us instead of eyes.

  • Gen 42:15
    68%

    15Hereby you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother come here.

  • Josh 22:24
    67%

    24and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this, [and] of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?