Genesis 43:34

New American Bible - revised edition

and as portions were brought to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times as large as anyone else’s. So they drank freely and made merry with him.

Cross References

Genesis 35:24

the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

Genesis 45:22

He also gave to each of them a set of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.

2 Samuel 11:8

David then said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and bathe your feet.” Uriah left the king’s house, and a portion from the king’s table was sent after him.

Proverbs 31:6

Give strong drink to anyone who is perishing, and wine to the embittered;

Ecclesiastes 10:19

A feast is made for merriment and wine gives joy to the living, but money answers for everything.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart, because it is now that God favors your works.

Song of Solomon 5:1

M I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I gather my myrrh with my spices, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. D? Eat, friends; drink! Drink deeply, lovers!

Habakkuk 1:6

For now I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impulsive people, Who march the breadth of the land to take dwellings not their own.

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by her works.” Reproaches to Unrepentant Towns.

John 2:10

and said to him, “Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

1 Samuel 1:5

but he would give a double portion to Hannah because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.