Genesis 44:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

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."

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  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
  • Gen 26:29 : 29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."
  • Gen 37:32-33 : 32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not." 33 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."
  • Gen 42:18 : 18 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.
  • 2 Sam 23:3 : 3 The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: One who rules over men righteously, Who rules in the fear of God,
  • Ps 75:2 : 2 When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
  • Prov 17:15 : 15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 44:18-19
    2 verses
    83%

    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?'

  • Gen 44:7-10
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    81%

    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 44:15-16
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    15 Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

    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."

  • Gen 44:32-34
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    32 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.'

    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 44:1-2
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    1 He 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.

    2 Put 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 44:21-23
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    75%

    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.'

  • Gen 45:8
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    8 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 43:9
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    9 I 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 44:30
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    30 Now 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;

  • Exod 4:23
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    23 and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

  • Gen 50:17-18
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    74%

    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.

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

  • Gen 40:11
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    11 Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand."

  • Gen 44:5
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    5 Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"

  • 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 45:17
    73%

    17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.