Genesis 43:8

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Summary

And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

Lad with me

Genesis 42:38

Genesis 44:26

Exodus 20:12

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Genesis 44:32

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Lad with me

And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.

And we said, Only if our youngest brother goes with us will we go down; for we may not see the man's face again if our youngest brother is not with us.

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

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And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

Let life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of his men be small.

If we say, We will go into the town, there is no food in the town, and we will come to our end there; and if we go on waiting here, death will come to us. Come then, let us give ourselves up to the army of Aram: if they let us go on living, then life will be ours; and if they put us to death, then death will be ours.

Life and not death will be my part, and I will give out the story of the works of the Lord.

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And say to them, This you are to do: take carts from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and get your father and come back.

And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.

And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.

Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

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For 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.