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.

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Genesis 42:25, Genesis 42:25, Genesis 43:16, Genesis 43:16, Isaiah 3:1

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.

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2 Corinthians 8:8, 2 Corinthians 8:8, Deuteronomy 8:16, Matthew 10:16, Genesis 42:15

3As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

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4When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?

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John 10:32, Psalms 35:12, John 10:32, Psalms 35:12, 1 Samuel 24:17

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

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Genesis 30:27, Genesis 30:27, Deuteronomy 18:10, Deuteronomy 18:14, Leviticus 19:26

6He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.

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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!

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Genesis 38:16, Genesis 38:18, Genesis 38:16, Genesis 38:18, Ecclesiastes 7:1

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?

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Genesis 43:21, Genesis 43:22, Genesis 42:27, Genesis 42:21, Deuteronomy 5:19

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

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Genesis 31:32, Genesis 31:32, Acts 25:11, Genesis 44:16, Job 31:38

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."

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Matthew 18:24, Matthew 18:25, Exodus 22:3, Genesis 44:17, Genesis 44:33

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

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12He searched, beginning with the eldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

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Genesis 44:2, Genesis 43:14, Genesis 44:26, Genesis 44:32, Genesis 43:33

13Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

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2 Samuel 1:11, 2 Samuel 1:11, 2 Samuel 1:2, Genesis 37:29, Genesis 37:34

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

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Genesis 43:25, Genesis 43:16, Philippians 2:10, Philippians 2:11, Genesis 50:18

15Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"

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Genesis 3:13, Genesis 4:10, Exodus 32:1, Genesis 39:8, Genesis 44:4

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."

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Genesis 44:9, Genesis 44:9, Daniel 9:7, Daniel 9:7, Numbers 32:23

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."

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Genesis 42:18, Proverbs 17:15, Genesis 37:32, Genesis 37:33, 2 Samuel 23:3

18Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and do not let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

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Exodus 32:22, Exodus 32:22, Genesis 18:30, Genesis 41:40, Genesis 18:30

19My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?'

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Genesis 43:7, Genesis 43:7, Genesis 42:7, Genesis 42:10, Genesis 43:29

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.'

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Genesis 37:3, Genesis 37:3, Genesis 42:38, Genesis 42:38, Luke 7:12

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

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Genesis 42:15, Genesis 42:15, Genesis 42:20, Genesis 42:20, Genesis 43:29

22We said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.'

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Genesis 44:30, Genesis 42:38, Genesis 44:30, Genesis 42:38

23You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'

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Genesis 43:3, Genesis 43:5, Genesis 43:3, Genesis 43:5, Genesis 42:15

24It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

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Genesis 42:29, Genesis 42:34, Genesis 42:29, Genesis 42:34

25Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

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Genesis 43:2, Genesis 43:2, Genesis 43:5, Genesis 43:5

26We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.'

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Luke 11:7, Genesis 43:4, Genesis 43:5, Luke 11:7, Genesis 43:4

27Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:

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Genesis 46:19, Genesis 46:19, Genesis 30:22, Genesis 30:25, Genesis 35:16

28and 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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Genesis 37:33, Genesis 37:33, Genesis 42:36, Genesis 42:38, Genesis 37:13

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

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Genesis 42:38, Genesis 42:38, Genesis 43:14, Genesis 43:14, Deuteronomy 31:17

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;

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1 Samuel 18:1, 1 Samuel 18:1, Genesis 44:34, Genesis 44:31, Genesis 44:17

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.

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Genesis 44:29, Genesis 44:29, Genesis 37:35, Genesis 37:35, 1 Samuel 22:22

32For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'

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Genesis 43:16, Genesis 43:8, Genesis 43:9, Genesis 43:16, Genesis 43:8

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.

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1 John 3:16, 1 John 3:16, Hebrews 7:22, Romans 5:7, Romans 5:10

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."

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Esther 8:6, Esther 8:6, 2 Chronicles 34:28, Psalms 119:143, Job 31:29