Genesis 44 Cross References - NHEB

¹ Then he instructed the manager of his house, saying, "Fill the menʼs sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each manʼs silver in the mouth of his sack. ² Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sackʼs mouth of the youngest, along with the silver for his grain." So he did according to the word that Joseph had told him. ³ As soon as the morning dawned, the men were sent off along with their donkeys. ⁴ When they were far from the city, Joseph said to his manager, "Up, go after the men, and when you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good? ⁵ Why have you stolen my silver cup? Isnʼt it from this that my lord drinks and by which he indeed uses for divination? You have done evil in doing this.'" ⁶ And he caught up with them and spoke these words to them. ⁷ But they said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing. ⁸ Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lordʼs house? ⁹ With whomever of your servants it is found, he must die, and we also will be my lordʼs slaves." ¹⁰ And he said, "Very well, then, it will be as you say. The one with whom it is found will be my slave, but you will be blameless." ¹¹ Then they hurried, and each man lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack. ¹² And he searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjaminʼs sack. ¹³ Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city. ¹⁴ So Judah and his brothers came to Josephʼs house, and he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him. ¹⁵ And Joseph said to them, "What is this deed that you have done? Didnʼt you know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?" ¹⁶ Then Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we clear ourselves? God has uncovered the guilt of your servants. Look, we are my lordʼs slaves, both we, and the one in whose possession the cup was found." ¹⁷ But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose possession the cup was found, he will be my slave. But as for you, go up to your father in peace." ¹⁸ Then Judah approached him, and said, "My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word in the ears of my lord, and do not become angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. ¹⁹ My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?' ²⁰ And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child born when he was old, a little one, and his brother is dead, and he is his motherʼs only child, and his father loves him.' ²¹ Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, so that I can see him myself.' ²² And we said to my lord, 'The boy can't leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.' ²³ But you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.' ²⁴ And it happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. ²⁵ But our father said, x91Go again, buy us a little food.ʼ ²⁶ We said, 'We canʼt go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down, for we cannot see the manʼs face unless our youngest brother is with us.' ²⁷ Then your servant my father said to us, x91You know that my wife bore me two sons. ²⁸ And the one disappeared from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces." And I havenʼt seen him since. ²⁹ If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. ³⁰ So now, when I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boyʼs life, ³¹ it will happen, when he sees that the boy is not with us, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. ³² For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.' ³³ So now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy, a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers. ³⁴ For how will I go up to my father if the boy isnʼt with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come on my father."

² Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.

²⁵ Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every manʼs silver into his sack, and to give them food for the journey. And it was done for them.

² So it came about when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, that their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."

¹⁶ When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and prepare it; for the men will eat with me at noon."

¹⁹ So they came near to the man of Josephʼs house and they spoke to him at the entrance of the house,

¹ For look, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;

¹⁵ This is how you will be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you will not leave from here until your youngest brother comes here. ¹⁶ Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you will stay in prison, so that your words can be tested, whether there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies."

²⁰ But bring your youngest brother to me so that your words will be verified, and you wonʼt die." To this they agreed.

³² They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat food with the Hebrews, for that is disgraceful to the Egyptians.

² You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, and to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

³ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

¹⁶ "Look, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be cunning as snakes and innocent as doves.

⁸ I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

¹⁶ So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

¹⁷ He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

¹¹ look, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

¹² They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

⁵ They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

¹³ Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

³² Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

²⁷ Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have learned by divination that God has blessed me for your sake."

¹⁵ And Joseph said to them, "What is this deed that you have done? Didnʼt you know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?"

²⁶ "'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you practice divination, nor practice sorcery.

¹⁰ There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who practices divination, or tells fortunes, or interprets omens, or a sorcerer, ¹¹ or who casts spells, or consults a medium or a familiar spirit, or inquires of the dead. ¹² For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you. ¹³ You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. ¹⁴ For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do.

³³ Now the men were looking for an omen, and they seized upon it from him, and they said, "Ben Hadad is your brother." Then he said, "Go, bring him." Then Ben Hadad came out to him, and he had him come up into the chariot.

⁶ He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and practiced divination, and consulted mediums, and spiritists: he worked much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

²⁵ It happened on the third day, when they were still in pain, that two of Jacobʼs sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinahʼs brothers, each took his sword and came into the unsuspecting city and killed all the males. ²⁶ They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords and took Dinah out of Shechemʼs house and left. ²⁷ Jacobʼs sons entered over the dead and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. ²⁸ They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and was in the field, ²⁹ and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the houses. ³⁰ Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and attack me, and I and my household will be destroyed." ³¹ But they said, "Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?"

²² It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and slept with Bilhah, his fatherʼs secondary wife, and Israel heard about it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

¹⁸ Now they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them they plotted against him to kill him. ¹⁹ And they said to one another, "Look, this dreamer is coming. ²⁰ Come now, and letʼs kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns, and we will say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we will see what will become of his dreams." ²¹ But Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hands, and said, "Letʼs not take his life." ²² Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"—that he might deliver him out of their hands, to restore him to his father. ²³ It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his robe, the long ornamented robe that he was wearing. ²⁴ And they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the pit was empty. There was no water in it.) ²⁵ Then they sat down to eat a meal. And they looked up, and look, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing aromatic gum and balm and myrrh on their way to carry them down to Egypt. ²⁶ Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come, and letʼs sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our flesh." And his brothers agreed. ²⁸ So the Midianites merchants passed by, and they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the cistern, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt. ²⁹ And Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph wasnʼt in the cistern; and he tore his clothes. ³⁰ He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone. Now, what am I to do?" ³¹ They took Josephʼs robe and killed a male goat and dipped the robe in the blood. ³² And they sent the long ornamented robe and they brought it to their father, and said, "We found this. Please examine it to see whether it is your sonʼs robe or not."

¹⁶ He went over to her by the road and said, "Please come, let me sleep with you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me for sleeping with you?" ¹⁷ He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me something as a guarantee until you send it?" ¹⁸ He said, "What kind of guarantee should I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her, and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

²² "El, God, the LORD. El, God, the LORD. He knows; and Israel shall know. If it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against the LORD, do not save us this day, ²³ that we have built us an altar to turn away from following the LORD; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let the LORD himself require it. ²⁴ If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, 'In time to come your descendants might speak to our descendants, saying, "What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel? ²⁵ For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you descendants of Reuben and descendants of Gad. You have no portion in the LORD."' So your children might make our children cease from fearing the LORD. ²⁶ Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; ²⁷ but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;' that your descendants may not tell our descendants in time to come, 'You have no portion in the LORD.' ²⁸ Therefore we said, 'It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, "Look the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you."' ²⁹ Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn away this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle."

²⁰ Joab answered, "Far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy.

¹³ Hazael said, "But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram."

¹ A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

¹ A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth.

¹⁸ Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

²¹ Then they said to one another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us, and we wouldnʼt listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."

²⁷ As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food at the lodging place, he saw his silver. Look, it was in the mouth of his sack.

³⁵ Then it happened as they emptied their sacks, that look, every manʼs bag of silver was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bags of silver, they were afraid.

¹² Take twice as much silver in your hand, and take back the silver that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

²¹ But when we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and look, every manʼs silver was in the mouth of his sack, our silver in full weight. So we have brought it back in our hand. ²² We have brought down additional silver with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks."

⁷ But they said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing.

¹⁵ "Do not steal.

¹⁹ "Do not steal.

¹⁸ He said to him, "Which ones?" And Jesus said, "'Do not murder.' 'Do not commit adultery.' 'Do not steal.' 'Do not offer false testimony.'

⁹ For the commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not give false testimony," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You are to love your neighbor as yourself."

¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. ¹¹ For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

³² Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, identify what I have that is yours, and take it with you." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

¹⁸ But the men were afraid because they were brought to Josephʼs house, and they said, "It is because of the silver that was returned in our sacks the first time that we are brought here; so that he may capture us, and make us slaves, and take our donkeys."

¹⁶ Then Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we clear ourselves? God has uncovered the guilt of your servants. Look, we are my lordʼs slaves, both we, and the one in whose possession the cup was found."

³⁸ If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life, ⁴⁰ let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

³ LORD, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands, ⁴ if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, or oppressed my enemy without cause, ⁵ let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

¹¹ For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar."

¹⁷ But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose possession the cup was found, he will be my slave. But as for you, go up to your father in peace."

³³ So now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy, a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.

³ If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

²⁴ When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. ²⁵ But because he could not pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

³⁶ Then their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All this has come against me." ³⁷ Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons if I do not bring him to you. Put him in my care, and I will bring him back to you." ³⁸ But he said, "My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should happen to him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

¹⁴ And may El Shaddai grant you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am deprived of my children, then I am deprived."

³³ And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men looked at each other with amazement.

² Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sackʼs mouth of the youngest, along with the silver for his grain." So he did according to the word that Joseph had told him.

²⁶ We said, 'We canʼt go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down, for we cannot see the manʼs face unless our youngest brother is with us.' ²⁷ Then your servant my father said to us, x91You know that my wife bore me two sons. ²⁸ And the one disappeared from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces." And I havenʼt seen him since. ²⁹ If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. ³⁰ So now, when I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boyʼs life, ³¹ it will happen, when he sees that the boy is not with us, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. ³² For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'

²⁹ And Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph wasnʼt in the cistern; and he tore his clothes. ³⁰ He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone. Now, what am I to do?" ³¹ They took Josephʼs robe and killed a male goat and dipped the robe in the blood. ³² And they sent the long ornamented robe and they brought it to their father, and said, "We found this. Please examine it to see whether it is your sonʼs robe or not." ³³ And he recognized it, and said, "It is my sonʼs robe. A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces." ³⁴ Then Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

⁶ Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:

² It happened on the third day, that, look, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And it came about when he came to David that he fell to the ground and paid homage.

¹¹ Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him.

¹⁹ Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her ornamented robe that she wore. And she put her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.

⁷ And look, we were binding sheaves in the field, and look, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And look, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf." ⁸ Then his brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed rule over us?" So they hated him all the more for his dreams and for what he said. ⁹ And he had another dream, and told it to his father and to his brothers, and said, "Look, I had yet another dream, and look, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me." ¹⁰ When he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you had? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come and bow down to the ground in front of you?"

²⁵ They prepared the gift for Josephʼs arrival at noon, for they heard that they would eat a meal there.

¹⁸ Then his brothers also went and fell down in front of him, and they said, "Look, we are your slaves."

¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, ¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹³ Then God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

¹⁰ And God said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.

²⁶ Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

⁸ But he refused, and said to his masterʼs wife, "Look, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he has into my care.

⁴ When they were far from the city, Joseph said to his manager, "Up, go after the men, and when you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good? ⁵ Why have you stolen my silver cup? Isnʼt it from this that my lord drinks and by which he indeed uses for divination? You have done evil in doing this.'"

¹ When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."

⁷ And look, we were binding sheaves in the field, and look, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And look, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf."

⁹ And he had another dream, and told it to his father and to his brothers, and said, "Look, I had yet another dream, and look, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."

¹⁸ Now they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them they plotted against him to kill him. ¹⁹ And they said to one another, "Look, this dreamer is coming. ²⁰ Come now, and letʼs kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns, and we will say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we will see what will become of his dreams." ²¹ But Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hands, and said, "Letʼs not take his life." ²² Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"—that he might deliver him out of their hands, to restore him to his father. ²³ It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his robe, the long ornamented robe that he was wearing. ²⁴ And they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the pit was empty. There was no water in it.) ²⁵ Then they sat down to eat a meal. And they looked up, and look, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing aromatic gum and balm and myrrh on their way to carry them down to Egypt. ²⁶ Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come, and letʼs sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our flesh." And his brothers agreed. ²⁸ So the Midianites merchants passed by, and they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the cistern, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt.

²¹ Then they said to one another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us, and we wouldnʼt listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us." ²² Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not tell you, saying, 'Do not sin against the boy,' but you wouldnʼt listen? Therefore, look, now comes a reckoning for his blood."

⁸ Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me and weʼll get up and go, so that we may live and not die, both we and you, and also our little ones. ⁹ I will be collateral for him. You can hold me responsible for him. If I fail to bring him to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever,

⁹ With whomever of your servants it is found, he must die, and we also will be my lordʼs slaves."

³² For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'

²³ "But if you will not do so, look, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.

¹ If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

¹ But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore the LORD's anger burned against the children of Israel.

¹⁸ He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

⁷ Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, scavenged under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

¹⁰ "Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

¹⁵ The LORD, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is this day. Look, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this."

⁴ "Look, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

¹⁵ He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.

¹⁷ A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

³ "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

⁹ Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.

⁷ Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds that they have committed against you.

² For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

² But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.

³⁷ Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what should we do?"

²⁵ Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

²⁹ that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of God."

³² And they sent the long ornamented robe and they brought it to their father, and said, "We found this. Please examine it to see whether it is your sonʼs robe or not." ³³ And he recognized it, and said, "It is my sonʼs robe. A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."

¹⁸ Then Joseph said to them the third day, "Do what I say, and live, for I fear God.

³ The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, 'One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

² When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.

³⁰ He said, "Oh do not let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

³² He said, "Oh do not let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

⁴⁰ You will be in charge of my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you."

⁴⁴ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your permission no one will do anything or go anywhere in all the land of Egypt."

²² Aaron said, "Do not let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

¹² Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

¹² But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

³¹ Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.

⁵ How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

¹² The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

¹⁵ Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, well: but if you do not worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?"

¹⁹ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Therefore he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. ²⁰ He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then these men were bound in their cloaks, trousers, their turbans, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. ²² Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. ²³ These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

¹⁹ And because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.

²² For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

²⁹ "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

⁷ Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but he acted like he did not know them, and spoke harshly with them. And he said to them, "Where do you come from?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food." ⁸ So Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him. ⁹ Then Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies. You have come to look for the vulnerabilities of the country." ¹⁰ But they said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.

⁷ They said, "The man kept asking about ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' So we just answered his questions. How were we to know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"

²⁹ And he looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his motherʼs son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you told me about?" Then he said, "God be gracious to you, my son."

¹⁸ It happened, as her life was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-Oni, but his father named him Benjamin.

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he had been born to him in his old age. And he made a long ornamented robe for him.

¹⁹ And they said to one another, "Look, this dreamer is coming.

³³ And he recognized it, and said, "It is my sonʼs robe. A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces." ³⁴ Then Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days. ³⁵ All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, "Indeed, I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." And his father wept for him.

¹³ But they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and look, the youngest is now with our father, and one is no more."

³⁶ Then their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All this has come against me."

³⁸ But he said, "My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should happen to him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

⁷ They said, "The man kept asking about ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' So we just answered his questions. How were we to know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'" ⁸ Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me and weʼll get up and go, so that we may live and not die, both we and you, and also our little ones.

²⁷ Then your servant my father said to us, x91You know that my wife bore me two sons. ²⁸ And the one disappeared from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces." And I havenʼt seen him since. ²⁹ If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. ³⁰ So now, when I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boyʼs life,

²¹ And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Beker, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, and Ahiram, and Shuppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

⁸ Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your fatherʼs sons will bow down before you.

¹² And when he drew near to the gate of the city, then look, a man who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a large crowd from the city was with her.

¹⁵ This is how you will be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you will not leave from here until your youngest brother comes here.

⁶ For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

⁴ Now, look, I release you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, do not: look, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go."

⁴ Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for disaster, and not for good.

³⁰ So now, when I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boyʼs life,

¹⁵ This is how you will be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you will not leave from here until your youngest brother comes here. ¹⁶ Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you will stay in prison, so that your words can be tested, whether there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies." ¹⁷ So he put all of them together in prison for three days. ¹⁸ Then Joseph said to them the third day, "Do what I say, and live, for I fear God. ¹⁹ If you are honest, then let one of your brothers remain confined in your prison; but you go and carry grain for the hunger of your households. ²⁰ But bring your youngest brother to me so that your words will be verified, and you wonʼt die." To this they agreed.

³ But Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man strictly warned us, saying, 'You may not see my face unless your brother is with you.'

⁵ but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You may not see my face unless your brother is with you.'"

²⁹ Then they returned to their father Jacob to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying, ³⁰ "The man, the lord of the country, spoke harshly to us, and he put us in custody as spies of the country. ³¹ But we said to him, 'We are honest men. We are not spies. ³² We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.' ³³ The man, the lord of the country, said to us, x91By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the hunger of your households, and go your way. ³⁴ Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you may travel in the land.'"

⁴ If youʼll send our brother with us, weʼll go down and buy you food, ⁵ but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You may not see my face unless your brother is with you.'"

⁷ and he from within will answer and say, 'Do not bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give it to you'?

¹⁸ Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter." ¹⁹ Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me." ²⁰ Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and it seemed only a few days to him because of his love for her. ²¹ Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my time is completed, so that I may sleep with her."

²⁸ Then Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

²² God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and made her fertile. ²³ She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my shame." ²⁴ So she named him Joseph, saying, “May God add another son to me." ²⁵ It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

¹⁶ Then they set out from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel went into labor, and her labor was difficult. ¹⁷ When she was in the difficult labor, the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid, for now you have another son." ¹⁸ It happened, as her life was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-Oni, but his father named him Benjamin.

¹⁹ The sons of Rachel, Jacobʼs wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

¹³ And Israel said to Joseph, "Arenʼt your brothers pasturing the flock near Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." And he said to him, "I am ready." ¹⁴ So he said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers and well with the flock, and report back to me." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

³³ And he recognized it, and said, "It is my sonʼs robe. A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."

³¹ it will happen, when he sees that the boy is not with us, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

¹⁷ Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, 'Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?'

³ For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. ⁴ I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

³⁴ For how will I go up to my father if the boy isnʼt with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come on my father."

¹ It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

²⁹ Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

³³ The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. As he went, he said, "My son Absalom. My son, my son Absalom. I wish I had died for you, Absalom, my son, my son."

²⁶ Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come, and letʼs sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our flesh." And his brothers agreed.

³⁵ All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, "Indeed, I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." And his father wept for him.

²⁹ If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

¹⁷ He who brought the news answered, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured." ¹⁸ It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

²² David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for all the lives of your father's house.

¹⁰ For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

¹³ But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you do not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

³² Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."

⁷ For rarely does one die for the righteous. Yet perhaps for a good person someone might dare to die. ⁸ But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him. ¹⁰ For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my physical relatives according to the flesh,

²² Accordingly Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

⁸ Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

³³ And the man of yours I do not cut off from my altar will be to cause his eyes to fail and to grieve his soul, and all the increase of your house will die by the sword of men. ³⁴ "'This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall both die.

²⁸ "Look, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the disaster that I will bring on this place, and on its inhabitants."'" They brought back word to the king.

⁶ For how can I endure to see the disaster that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?"

²⁹ "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

³ The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

¹⁰ The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he killed also all the officials of Judah in Riblah. ¹¹ He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.