Genesis 42:13

Easy To Read Version

And the brothers said, “No! We are all brothers. There are twelve brothers in our family. We all have the same father. Our youngest brother is still at home with our father. And the other brother died a long time ago. We are like servants before you. We are from the land of Canaan.”

Cross References

Genesis 37:30

Reuben went to the brothers and said, “The boy is not in the well! What will I do?”

Genesis 42:11

We are all brothers—we all have the same father. We are honest men. We have come only to buy food.”

Genesis 42:12

Then Joseph said to them, “No! You have come to learn where we are weak.”

Genesis 42:14

But Joseph said to them, “No! I can see I am right. You are spies.

Genesis 42:32

We told him that we were twelve brothers. We told him about our father, and we told him about our youngest brother who was still at home in Canaan.

Genesis 42:36

Jacob said to them, “Do you want me to lose all of my children? Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin away too!”

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob said, “I will not let Benjamin go with you. His brother is dead, and he is the only son left from my wife Rachel. It would kill me if anything happened to him during the trip to Egypt. You would send me to the grave [244] a very sad, old man.”

Genesis 43:29

Then Joseph saw his brother, Benjamin. (Benjamin and Joseph had the same mother.) Joseph said, “Is this your youngest brother that you told me about?” Then Joseph said to Benjamin, “God bless you, my son!”

Genesis 43:7

The brothers answered, “That man asked lots of questions. He wanted to know all about us and about our family. He asked us, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother at home?’ We only answered his questions. We didn’t know he would ask us to bring our brother to him!”

Genesis 44:20

And we answered you, ‘We have a father—he is an old man. And we have a young brother. Our father loves that son because he was born while our father was old. And that young son’s brother is dead. So this is the only son that is left born from that mother. Our father loves him very much.’

Genesis 44:28

I let one son go away, and he was killed by a wild animal. And I haven’t seen him since.

Genesis 45:26

The brothers told him, “Father, Joseph is still alive! And he is the governor over the whole country of Egypt.”

Jeremiah 31:15

The Lord says:\par “A sound will be heard in Ramah.\par It will be bitter crying and\par much sadness.\par Rachel {\cf2\super [253]} will be crying for her children.\par Rachel will refuse to be comforted,\par because her children are dead.”\par

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned against you.\par Now they are dead.\par Now we are suffering because of their sins.\par

Matthew 2:16

Herod {\cf2\super [29]} saw that the wise men had fooled him. Herod was very, very angry. So Herod gave an order to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and in all the area around Bethlehem. Herod had learned from the wise men the time \{the baby was born\}. It was now two years from that time. So Herod said to kill all the boys that were two years old and younger.

Matthew 2:18

“A sound was heard in Ramah.\par It was bitter crying\par and much sadness.\par Rachel cries for her children;\par and she cannot be comforted,\par because her children are dead.”\par \i (Jeremiah 31:15)\i0 \par