Genesis 42:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

But they explained, “Sir, we come from a family of twelve brothers. The youngest is still with our father in Canaan, and one of our brothers is dead.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

Then he went back to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”

Genesis 42:11

We're honest men, and we come from the same family—we're not spies.”

Genesis 42:12

“That isn't so!” Joseph insisted. “You've come here to find out where our country is weak.”

Genesis 42:14

Joseph replied: It's just like I said. You're spies,

Genesis 42:32

We come from a family of twelve brothers. The youngest is still with our father in Canaan, and the other is dead.”

Genesis 42:36

who said, “You have already taken my sons Joseph and Simeon from me. And now you want to take away Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob said, “I won't let my son Benjamin go down to Egypt with the rest of you. His brother is already dead, and he is the only son I have left. I am an old man, and if anything happens to him on the way, I'll die from sorrow, and all of you will be to blame.”

Genesis 43:29

When Joseph looked around and saw his brother Benjamin, he said, “This must be your youngest brother, the one you told me about. God bless you, my son.”

Genesis 43:7

They answered, “He asked a lot of questions about us and our family. He wanted to know if you were still alive and if we had any more brothers. All we could do was answer his questions. How could we know he would tell us to bring along our brother?”

Genesis 44:20

So we told you, “Our father is a very old man. In fact, he was already old when Benjamin was born. Benjamin's brother is dead. Now Benjamin is the only one of the two brothers who is still alive, and our father loves him very much.”

Genesis 44:28

One of them was already missing and had not been seen for a long time. My father thinks the boy was torn to pieces by some wild animal,

Genesis 45:26

they told their father that Joseph was still alive and was the ruler of Egypt. But their father was so surprised that he could not believe them.

Jeremiah 31:15

In Ramah a voice is heard, crying and weeping loudly. Rachel mourns for her children and refuses to be comforted, because they are dead.

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned, but they are dead, and we are left to pay for their sins.

Matthew 2:16

When Herod found out that the wise men from the east had tricked him, he was very angry. He gave orders for his men to kill all the boys who lived in or near Bethlehem and were two years old and younger. This was based on what he had learnt from the wise men.

Matthew 2:18

“In Ramah a voice was heard crying and weeping loudly. Rachel was mourning for her children, and she refused to be comforted, because they were dead.”