Genesis 44:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

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?

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  • Gen 42:21 : 21 They 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 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 43:12 : 12 and 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 43:21-22 : 21 and 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. 22 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."
  • Gen 44:7 : 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!
  • Exod 20:15 : 15 "You shall not steal.
  • Deut 5:19 : 19 "Neither shall you steal.
  • Matt 19:18 : 18 He said to him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "'You shall not murder.' 'You shall not commit adultery.' 'You shall not steal.' 'You shall not offer false testimony.'
  • Rom 13:9 : 9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet,"{TR adds "You shall not give false testimony,"} and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
  • Jas 2:10-11 : 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he has become guilty of all. 11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 44:7
    85%

    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!

  • Gen 43:20-23
    4 verses
    84%

    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."

    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.

  • Gen 44:9-11
    3 verses
    82%

    9With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."

    10He 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."

    11Then they hurried, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

  • Gen 44:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    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 42:27-35
    9 verses
    79%

    27As 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.

    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,

    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.'"

    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 43:18
    79%

    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 44:16-18
    3 verses
    78%

    16Judah 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."

    17He 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."

    18Then 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.

  • Gen 43:12
    78%

    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 47:18
    76%

    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.

  • Gen 44:22-26
    5 verses
    76%

    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.'

  • 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 42:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

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

    11We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."

  • Gen 44:32
    74%

    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.'

  • Gen 42:25
    74%

    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 31:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

    16For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

  • Gen 42:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    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 47:14
    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.

  • Gen 43:15
    73%

    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.