Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Head » Bowed down » As a token of respect
It is all right, the servant replied. Do not worry. The God you and your father worship must have put the money there, because your money came first to me. Then he brought Simeon out to them.
Servants » Duties of, to masters » To be kind and attentive to their guests
It is all right, the servant replied. Do not worry. The God you and your father worship must have put the money there, because your money came first to me. Then he brought Simeon out to them. The servant took them into Joseph's house. He gave them water to wash their feet. He also tended their donkeys.
Simeon » Son of jacob » Goes down into egypt to buy corn (graini); is imprisoned by joseph, and is detained
It is all right, the servant replied. Do not worry. The God you and your father worship must have put the money there, because your money came first to me. Then he brought Simeon out to them.
Their father Jacob said to them: You are going to make me lose all my children! Joseph is no longer with us. Simeon is no longer with us. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!
He turned away from them and wept. When he returned to them and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
Treasure » A thing of highly-estimated value » Money
It is all right, the servant replied. Do not worry. The God you and your father worship must have put the money there, because your money came first to me. Then he brought Simeon out to them.
On the way they were worried and started talking: We are being taken there because of the money that was put back in our sacks last time. He will arrest us and take our donkeys. He will make us his slaves!
Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to restore every man's money in his sack. They were to give them provisions for the journey. And thus it was done for them.
They stopped for the night. One of them opened his sack to feed his donkey and his money was right inside his sack. He said to his brothers: My money has been put back! It is right here in my sack! They wanted to die. They trembled and turned to each other and asked: What has God done to us?
As they were emptying their sacks, each man found his bag of money in his sack. When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were frightened.
When we stopped for the night, we each found in our grain sacks the exact amount we had paid. We have brought that money back. We brought enough money to buy more grain. We do not know who put the money in our sacks.