Genesis 44 (NET)

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Genesis 44:1¹He instructed the servant who was over his household, “Fill the sacks of the men with as much food as they can carry and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:25 Gen 43:16 Gen 24:2 Gen 43:19 Gen 43:2 Isa 3:1

Genesis 44:2²Then put my cup—the silver cup—in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the money for his grain.” He did as Joseph instructed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 8:8 Deut 13:3 Deut 8:16 Deut 8:2 Gen 42:15-16 Gen 42:20 Gen 43:32 Matt 10:16

Genesis 44:3³When morning came, the men and their donkeys were sent off.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 44:4⁴They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to the servant who was over his household, “Pursue the men at once! When you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 10:32 Ps 35:12 1 Sam 24:17 Deut 2:16 Prov 17:13 Ps 109:5 2 Chr 20:11

Genesis 44:5⁵Doesn’t my master drink from this cup and use it for divination? You have done wrong!’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 21:6 Gen 30:27 Lev 19:26 Deut 18:10-14 Gen 44:15 1 Kgs 20:33

Genesis 44:6⁶When the man overtook them, he spoke these words to them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 44:7⁷They answered him, “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 38:16-18 2 Kgs 8:13 2 Sam 20:20 Eccl 7:1 Gen 34:25-31 Gen 35:22 Gen 37:18-32 Heb 13:18 Josh 22:22-29 Prov 22:1

Genesis 44:8⁸Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 5:19 Exod 20:15 Gen 42:21 Gen 42:27 Gen 42:35 Gen 43:12 Gen 43:21-22 Gen 44:7 Jas 2:10-11 Matt 19:18

Genesis 44:9⁹If one of us has it, he will die, and the rest of us will become my lord’s slaves!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 31:32 Acts 25:11 Gen 43:18 Gen 44:16 Job 31:38-40 Ps 7:3-5

Genesis 44:10¹⁰He replied, “You have suggested your own punishment! The one who has it will become my slave, but the rest of you will go free.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 22:3 Gen 44:17 Gen 44:33 Matt 18:24-25

Genesis 44:11¹¹So each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 44:12¹²Then the man searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:36-38 Gen 43:14 Gen 43:33 Gen 44:2 Gen 44:26-32

Genesis 44:13¹³They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 1:11 2 Sam 1:2 2 Sam 13:19 Gen 37:29-34 Num 14:6

Genesis 44:14¹⁴So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 43:16 Gen 43:25 Gen 50:18 Phil 2:10-11 Gen 37:7-10

Genesis 44:15¹⁵Joseph said to them, “What did you think you were doing? Don’t you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 44:4-5 Gen 21:26 Gen 3:13 Gen 39:8 Exod 32:1 Gen 4:10

Genesis 44:16¹⁶Judah replied, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has exposed the sin of your servants! We are now my lord’s slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 44:9 Dan 9:7 Luke 12:2 Num 32:23 Acts 2:37 Deut 25:1 Ezra 9:10 Ezra 9:15 Gen 37:18-28 Gen 37:7

Genesis 44:17¹⁷But Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of you may go back to your father in peace.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 23:3 Gen 18:25 Gen 26:29 Gen 37:32-33 Gen 42:18 Prov 17:15 Ps 75:2

Genesis 44:18¹⁸Then Judah approached him and said, “My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 32:22 Gen 18:30 Gen 41:40 Gen 18:32 Gen 41:44 2 Sam 14:12 Acts 2:29 Dan 3:15 Dan 3:19-23 Dan 5:19

Genesis 44:19¹⁹My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 43:7 Gen 42:7-10 Gen 43:29

Genesis 44:20²⁰We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 37:3 Gen 42:38 Gen 35:18 Gen 37:19 Gen 37:33-35 Gen 42:13 Gen 42:36 Gen 43:7-8 Gen 44:27-30 Gen 46:21

Genesis 44:21²¹“Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:15 Gen 42:20 Amos 9:4 Gen 43:29 Jer 24:6 Jer 40:4

Genesis 44:22²²We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:38 Gen 44:30

Genesis 44:23²³But you said to your servants, ‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 43:3 Gen 43:5 Gen 42:15-20

Genesis 44:24²⁴When we returned to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:29-34

Genesis 44:25²⁵“Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us a little food.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 43:2 Gen 43:5

Genesis 44:26²⁶But we replied, ‘We cannot go down there. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, for we won’t be permitted to see the man’s face if our youngest brother is not with us.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 43:4-5 Luke 11:7

Genesis 44:27²⁷“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 46:19 Gen 30:22-25 Gen 35:16-18 Gen 29:18-21 Gen 29:28

Genesis 44:28²⁸The first disappeared and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 37:33 Gen 37:13-14 Gen 42:36 Gen 42:38

Genesis 44:29²⁹If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:38 Gen 43:14 Deut 31:17 Gen 42:36 Gen 44:31 Ps 88:3-4

Genesis 44:30³⁰“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us—his very life is bound up in his son’s life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 18:1 1 Sam 25:29 2 Sam 18:33 Gen 44:17 Gen 44:31 Gen 44:34

Genesis 44:31³¹When he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 44:29 Gen 37:35 1 Sam 22:22 1 Sam 4:17-18 1 Thess 4:13 2 Cor 7:10 Gen 37:26-27

Genesis 44:32³²Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 43:16 Gen 43:8-9

Genesis 44:33³³“So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 3:16 Exod 32:32 Heb 7:22 Rom 5:7-10 Rom 9:3

Genesis 44:34³⁴For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Esth 8:6 1 Sam 2:33-34 2 Chr 34:28 Exod 18:8 Job 31:29 Ps 116:3 Ps 119:143 Jer 52:10-11