Genesis 44:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:

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  • Gen 34:25-31 : 25 But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death. 26 And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away. 27 And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister; 28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields, 29 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste. 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people. 31 But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.
  • Gen 37:18-32 : 18 But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death; 19 Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer. 20 Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams. 21 But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not take his life. 22 Do not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed in one of the holes; this he said to keep him safe from their hands, with the purpose of taking him back to his father again. 23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his long coat which he had on; 24 And they took him and put him in the hole: now the hole had no water in it. 25 Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their camels. 26 And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there in putting our brother to death and covering up his blood? 27 Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him. 28 And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt. 29 Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of grief, 30 He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do? 31 Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death, 32 And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not?
  • Gen 38:16-18 : 16 And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price? 17 And he said, I will give you a young goat from the flock. And she said, What will you give me as a sign till you send it? 18 And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.
  • Josh 22:22-29 : 22 God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see--if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord, 23 That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it; 24 And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel? 25 For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division between us and you, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad; you have no part in the Lord: so your children will make our children give up fearing the Lord. 26 So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts: 27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord. 28 For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you. 29 Never let it be said that we were false to the Lord, turning back this day from him and building an altar for burned offerings and meal offerings and offerings of beasts, in addition to the altar of the Lord our God which is before his House.
  • 2 Sam 20:20 : 20 And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction;
  • 2 Kgs 8:13 : 13 And Hazael said, How is it possible that your servant, who is only a dog, will do this great thing? And Elisha said, The Lord has made it clear to me that you will be king over Aram.
  • Prov 22:1 : 1 A good name is more to be desired than great wealth, and to be respected is better than silver and gold.
  • Eccl 7:1 : 1 A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
  • Heb 13:18 : 18 Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.

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  • Gen 44:8-10
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    8See, the money which was in the mouth of our bags we gave back to you when we came again from Canaan: how then might we take silver or gold from your lord's house?

    9If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.

    10And he said, Let it be as you say: he in whose bag it is seen will become my servant; and you will not be responsible.

  • Gen 44:15-19
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    15And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?

    16And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen.

    17Then he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who had my cup will be my servant; and you may go back to your father in peace.

    18Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.

    19My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother?

  • Gen 42:10-12
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    10And they said to him, Not so, my lord: your servants have come with money to get food.

    11We are all one man's sons, we are true men; we have not come with any secret purpose.

    12And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is.

  • Gen 44:4-6
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    4And when they had gone only a little way out of the town, Joseph said to the servant who was over his house, Go after them; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you done evil in reward for good?

    5Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done evil.

    6So he overtook them and said these words to them.

  • Gen 43:6-7
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    6And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?

    7Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.

  • Gen 44:21-24
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    21And you said to your servants, Let him come down to me with you, so that I may see him.

    22And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death.

    23But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.

    24And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.

  • Gen 44:32-34
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    32For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

    33So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

    34For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

  • Gen 42:28
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    28And he said to his brothers, My money has been given back: it is in my bag; then their hearts became full of fear, and turning to one another they said, What is this which God has done to us?

  • Gen 50:17-18
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    17You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.

    18Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.

  • Gen 44:1-2
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    1Then he gave orders to the servant who was over his house, saying, Put as much food into the men's bags as will go into them, and put every man's money in the mouth of his bag;

    2And put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag, with his money. So he did as Joseph said.

  • Gen 43:18
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    18So they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of the house,

  • Gen 47:3-4
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    3And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us.

    4And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 42:14
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    14And Joseph said, It is as I said; you have come with some secret purpose;

  • Gen 34:31
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    31But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?

  • Gen 42:21
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    21And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.

  • Gen 42:30
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    30The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.

  • Gen 47:18
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    18And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;

  • Gen 43:20
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    20And when we came to our night's resting-place, on opening our bags we saw that every man's money was in the mouth of his bag, all our money in full weight: and we have it with us to give it back;