Genesis 43:20

New International Version

“We beg your pardon, our lord,” they said, “we came down here the first time to buy food.

Cross References

Genesis 42:10

“No, my lord,” they answered. “Your servants have come to buy food.

Genesis 42:27

At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 42:3

Then ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Genesis 42:35

As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his pouch of silver! When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened.

Genesis 43:19

So they went up to Joseph’s steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

Genesis 43:21

But at the place where we stopped for the night we opened our sacks and each of us found his silver—the exact weight—in the mouth of his sack. So we have brought it back with us.

Genesis 43:3

But Judah said to him, “The man warned us solemnly, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’

Genesis 43:7

They replied, “The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. ‘Is your father still living?’ he asked us. ‘Do you have another brother?’ We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”

1 Kings 3:17

One of them said, “Pardon me, my lord. This woman and I live in the same house, and I had a baby while she was there with me.