Genesis 44:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.

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  • Gen 37:33 : 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 42:36 : 36 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
  • Gen 42:38 : 38 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
  • Gen 37:13-14 : 13 Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am." 14 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

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    29If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

    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;

    31it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

    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 44:26-27
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    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.'

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    36Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."

    37Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again."

    38He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

  • Gen 37:29-30
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    29Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

    30He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"

  • Gen 44:19-23
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    19My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

    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.'

    21You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

    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.'

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    32They 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."

    33He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."

    34Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

    35All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol{Sheol is the place of the dead or the grave.} to my son mourning." His father wept for him.

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    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.'

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    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."

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    9Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor knew he his own children: For they have observed your word, Keep your covenant.

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