Genesis 43:8

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Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy in my care, and we'll leave immediately, so that we can stay alive and not die—and that includes you and us and our children!

Cross References

Genesis 42:2

I've heard there's grain in Egypt. Go there and buy some for us so we can stay alive—if not, we're going to die!”

Genesis 42:38

“My son won't go there with you!” Jacob declared. “His brother is dead, and he's the only one I have left. If anything bad happens to him on the journey you're planning, you'll send this old man to his grave in grief.”

Genesis 44:20

We told you, my lord, ‘We have an elderly father, and a younger brother, born when our father was already old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's children left, and his father loves him dearly.’

Genesis 44:26

But we said, ‘There's no way we can go back unless Benjamin our youngest brother goes with us, because we won't be able to see the man if Benjamin isn't with us.’

Genesis 45:19

Tell them to do this as well: ‘Take some wagons from Egypt for your children and your wives. Bring them and your father here.

Genesis 50:21

So don't worry. I'll go on taking care of you and your children.” Speaking kindly like this he calmed them down.

Genesis 50:8

as well as Joseph's family, his brothers, and his father's family. They only left the small children and their flocks and herds back in Goshen.

2 Kings 7:13

One of his officers suggested, “Have some men take five of the remaining horses in the city. What happens to them will be the same as that of all the Israelites left here, All the Israelites here are doomed. Let's send them to find out what's going on.”

2 Kings 7:4

If we say, ‘Let's go into the city,’ we'll die because of the famine there; but if we go on sitting here, we'll die too. So come on, let's go to the camp of the Arameans and surrender to them. If they let us live, we'll live; if they kill us, we'll die.”

Ezra 8:21

At the Ahava Canal I called for a fast so we could confess our sins before God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, along with all our possessions.

Psalm 118:17

I'm not going to die. In fact I'm going to live, and let people know what the Lord has done.

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Numbers 14:31

However, I will take your children—those you said would be taken away as plunder—into the country you rejected, and they will appreciate it.

Deuteronomy 33:6

To Reuben he said, “May he live and not die, but may he only have a few men.”