Genesis 43:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Then Judah urged his father Israel: “Let the boy go with me, that we may be off and on our way if you and we and our children are to keep from starving to death.

Cross References

Genesis 42:2

He went on, “I hear that grain is for sale in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, that we may stay alive and not die.”

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob replied: “My son shall not go down with you. Now that his brother is dead, he is the only one left. If some disaster should befall him on the journey you must make, you would send my white head down to Sheol in grief.”

Genesis 44:20

So we said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and a younger brother, the child of his old age. This one’s full brother is dead, and since he is the only one by his mother who is left, his father is devoted to him.’

Genesis 44:26

So we reminded him, ‘We cannot go down there; only if our youngest brother is with us can we go, for we may not see the man if our youngest brother is not with us.’

Genesis 45:19

Instruct them further: ‘Do this. Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your children and your wives and bring your father back here.

Genesis 50:21

So now, do not fear. I will provide for you and for your children.” By thus speaking kindly to them, he reassured them.

Genesis 50:8

as well as Joseph’s whole household, his brothers, and his father’s household; only their children and their flocks and herds were left in the region of Goshen.

2 Kings 7:13

One of his servants, however, suggested: “Let some of us take five of the horses remaining in the city—they are just like the whole throng of Israel that has reached its limit—and let us send scouts to investigate.”

2 Kings 7:4

If we decide to go into the city, we shall die there, for there is famine in the city. If we remain here, we shall die too. So come, let us desert to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we live; if they kill us, we die.”

Ezra 8:21

Then I proclaimed a fast, there by the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions.

Psalm 118:17

I shall not die but live and declare the deeds of the Lord.

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and your mother, that you may have a long life in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Numbers 14:31

Your little ones, however, who you said would be taken as spoil, I will bring in, and they shall know the land you rejected.

Deuteronomy 33:6

May Reuben live and not die out, but let his numbers be few.