Genesis 42:15 Cross References - Leeser

¹⁵ Hereby shall ye be proved: By the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

⁷ And Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them; but made himself strange unto them and spoke roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

¹² And he said unto them, No! but to see the nakedness of the land are ye come.

¹⁶ Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether the truth be with you; and if not, by the life of Pharaoh, ye are surely spies.

²⁰ But your youngest brother bring unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

³⁰ The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us as though we were espying the country.

³⁴ And bring your youngest brother unto me; then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men; your brother I will give up to you, and in the land ye shall be allowed to traffic.

³ And Judah said unto him, thus, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

²⁰ And we said unto my lord, We have an old father, and a little child born in his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. ²¹ And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set my eye upon him. ²² And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his father, he would die. ²³ And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall not see my face any more. ²⁴ And it came to pass, when we came up unto thy servant my father, that we told him the words of my lord. ²⁵ And our father said, Go back and buy us a little food. ²⁶ And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we cannot see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us. ²⁷ And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons; ²⁸ And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he hath been torn to pieces; and I have not seen him up to this time. ²⁹ And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. ³⁰ And now, 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; ³¹ It will come to pass, that when he seeth that the lad is not with us, he will die: and thy servants would thus bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. ³² For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I have sinned against my father all the days. ³³ Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad as bond-man to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers. ³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? I should perhaps be compelled to witness the evil which would come on my father.

¹³ The Lord thy God shalt thou fear, and him shalt thou serve, and by his name shalt thou swear.

²⁶ And she said, Pardon, my Lord, as thy soul liveth, my Lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, to pray unto the Lord.

⁵⁵ And when Saul saw David going forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this lad? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I know it not.

³ But David swore again, and said, Thy father well knoweth that I have found grace in thy eyes; wherefore he said, Jonathan must not know this, lest he be grieved: nevertheless, as truly as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there was but one step between me and death.

² And though they say, “As the Lord liveth!” surely they only swear to a falsehood.

⁷ How shall I for this pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by those that are not gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlot’s house.