Bible Cross References
Judah
Genesis 43:8
Judah said to his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will leave at once. Then none of us will starve to death.
Genesis 44:16-34
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"What can we say to you, sir?" Judah answered. "How can we argue? How can we clear ourselves? God has uncovered our guilt. All of us are now your slaves and not just the one with whom the cup was found."
17
Joseph said, "Oh, no! I would never do that! Only the one who had the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may go back safe and sound to your father."
18
Judah went up to Joseph and said, "Please, sir, allow me to speak with you freely. Don't be angry with me; you are like the king himself.
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Sir, you asked us, 'Do you have a father or another brother?'
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We answered, 'We have a father who is old and a younger brother, born to him in his old age. The boy's brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother's children still alive; his father loves him very much.'
21
Sir, you told us to bring him here, so that you could see him,
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and we answered that the boy could not leave his father; if he did, his father would die.
23
Then you said, 'You will not be admitted to my presence again unless your youngest brother comes with you.'
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"When we went back to our father, we told him what you had said.
25
Then he told us to return and buy a little food.
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We answered, 'We cannot go; we will not be admitted to the man's presence unless our youngest brother is with us. We can go only if our youngest brother goes also.'
27
Our father said to us, 'You know that my wife Rachel bore me only two sons.
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One of them has already left me. He must have been torn to pieces by wild animals, because I have not seen him since he left.
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If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.'
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"And now, sir," Judah continued, "if I go back to my father without the boy, as soon as he sees that the boy is not with me, he will die. His life is wrapped up with the life of the boy, and he is so old that the sorrow we would cause him would kill him.
31
(SEE 44:30)
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What is more, I pledged my life to my father for the boy. I told him that if I did not bring the boy back to him, I would bear the blame all my life.
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And now, sir, I will stay here as your slave in place of the boy; let him go back with his brothers.
34
How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I cannot bear to see this disaster come upon my father."
Genesis 49:8
"Judah, your brothers will praise you. You hold your enemies by the neck. Your brothers will bow down before you.
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Genesis 31:21
He took everything he owned and left in a hurry. He crossed the Euphrates River and started for the hill country of Gilead.
Goshen
Genesis 46:34
be sure to tell him that you have taken care of livestock all your lives, just as your ancestors did. In this way he will let you live in the region of Goshen." Joseph said this because Egyptians will have nothing to do with shepherds.
Genesis 45:10
You can live in the region of Goshen, where you can be near me---you, your children, your grandchildren, your sheep, your goats, your cattle, and everything else that you have.
Genesis 47:1
So Joseph took five of his brothers and went to the king. He told him, "My father and my brothers have come from Canaan with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own. They are now in the region of Goshen."