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Why, they answered, the man asked news of all our family in turn, whether our father was still alive, and whether we had any brother besides; we told him no more than he asked, and how were we to know he would demand to have our brother brought into his presence? (Genesis 43, 7)
I take the boy under my charge, and make myself answerable for his safety; never forgive me if I do not bring him back and restore him to thee. (Genesis 43, 9)
where they stood dismayed; We have been brought in here because of the money, they said to one another, the money we took home in our sacks. He means to trump a charge against us, and to hold us here in pawn, and our beasts along with us. (Genesis 43, 18)
So food was brought, with separate portions for Joseph, for his brethren, and for the Egyptians who kept them company; the Egyptians are not allowed to eat with men of Hebrew blood, and would think it foul disgrace to share a meal with them. (Genesis 43, 32)
What a charge is this, my lord, they answered, to bring against thy servants! That we should have been guilty of such a shameful deed! (Genesis 44, 7)
My lord, said Juda, what answer can we make? What plea can we offer in our defence? We are guilty men, and God would not let it pass unnoticed; and now all of us, not only he in whose possession the cup was found, will be thy slaves. (Genesis 44, 16)
God forbid I should ask that, answered Joseph; no, the thief who stole the cup shall be my slave; the rest of you may go back to your father as free men. (Genesis 44, 17)
our answer was, My lord, we have a father well advanced in years, and one of his sons is still with him, the youngest, who was born to him in his old age. There was another son by the same mother, but he is dead, and now only this one recalls his mother’s memory, so that his father loves him dearly. (Genesis 44, 20)
You know, he answered, that my own wife only bore me two sons; (Genesis 44, 27)
Enslave me instead; with full justice, I made myself answerable for him. If I do not bring him back, I said, I will never claim my own father’s forgiveness. (Genesis 44, 32)
But when he spoke, he burst into such a fit of weeping that these Egyptians, and all Pharao’s household, could not but hear it. (Genesis 45, 2)
I am Joseph, said he to his brethren; is my father yet alive? But his brethren were so overcome with fear that they could not answer him, (Genesis 45, 3)