Genesis 43:34 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁴ Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. So they drank and were merry with him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of their's. And they drank, and were merry with him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ [Joseph] took and sent helpings to them from before him, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank freely and were merry with him.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.

Common English Bible

³⁴ Portions of food from Joseph’s table were brought to them, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as large as theirs. So they drank together and were at ease.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ taking the portions that they received from him. And the greater portion went to Benjamin, so much so that it exceeded five parts. And they drank and became inebriated along with him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ Taking the messes which they received of him: and the greater mess came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they drank, and were merry with him.

Genesis 43:34 Cross References

Genesis 35:24

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 45:22

To each and all of them he gave festal garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five festal garments.

2 Samuel 11:8

Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house, and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.

Proverbs 31:6

Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

Ecclesiastes 10:19

Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do.

Song of Solomon 5:1

I come to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gather my myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink: drink deeply, O lovers!

Habakkuk 1:6

For lo, I am rousing the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize habitations not their own.

Matthew 11:19

the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”

John 2:10

and said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first; and when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

1 Samuel 1:5

and, although he loved Hannah, he would give Hannah only one portion, because the Lord had closed her womb.