Genesis 43:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 42:3 : 3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
  • Gen 42:10 : 10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
  • Gen 42:27 : 27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging-place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
  • Gen 42:35 : 35 It 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.
  • Gen 43:3 : 3 Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
  • Gen 43:7 : 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?'"

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  • Gen 42:10
    83%

    10They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

  • Gen 43:21-26
    6 verses
    82%

    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."

    23He said, "Peace be to you. Don't be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money." He brought Simeon out to them.

    24The man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.

    25They made ready the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

    26When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down themselves to him to the earth.

  • Gen 43:17-19
    3 verses
    81%

    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."

    19They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

  • Gen 43:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1The famine was severe in the land.

    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,

  • Gen 44:23-26
    4 verses
    78%

    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.'

  • Gen 42:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Gen 44:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    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 43:7
    76%

    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?'"

  • Gen 43:15
    76%

    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 42:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

    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.

    7Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

  • Gen 47:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

    19Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

  • Gen 44:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.

    2Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

  • Gen 42:33
    74%

    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.

  • Gen 42:25
    73%

    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.

  • Gen 47:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

    15When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."

  • Gen 43:10
    72%

    10for unless we had lingered, surely we would have returned a second time by now."

  • Gen 42:35
    72%

    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.

  • Gen 50:18
    72%

    18His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."

  • Gen 42:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    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?"

    29They came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

  • Gen 43:12
    72%

    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.

  • Gen 42:31
    72%

    31We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

  • Gen 47:4
    72%

    4They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

  • Gen 46:32
    71%

    32These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

  • Gen 42:21
    71%

    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 44:14
    71%

    14Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.