Old Testament

Book	Chapter	Verse
Genesis	44	(16) And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
Genesis	44	(17) And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant: and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
Genesis	44	(18) Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
Genesis	44	(19) My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
Genesis	44	(20) And we said unto 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 loveth him.
Genesis	44	(21) And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
Genesis	44	(22) And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
Genesis	44	(23) And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
Genesis	44	(24) And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Genesis	44	(25) And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
Genesis	44	(26) And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.
Genesis	44	(27) And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:
Genesis	44	(28) And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
Genesis	44	(29) And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis	44	(30) Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us: seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
Genesis	44	(31) It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis	44	(32) For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
Genesis	44	(33) Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
Genesis	44	(34) For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Genesis	45	(1) THEN JOSEPH could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.

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(16) And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.

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(17) And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant: and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

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(18) Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.

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(19) My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

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(20) And we said unto 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 loveth him.

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(21) And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

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(22) And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

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44

(23) And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

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(24) And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

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(25) And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

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(26) And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.

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(27) And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

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(28) And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:

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(29) And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

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(30) Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us: seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

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(31) It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

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(32) For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

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(33) Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

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(34) For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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45

(1) THEN JOSEPH could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.