Genesis 43:34

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Portions were taken to them from Joseph’s table, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. So they drank and were merry with him.

Cross References

Genesis 35:24

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 45:22

To each one of them he gave a set of garments, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of garments.

2 Samuel 11:8

Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king.

Proverbs 31:6

Give strong drink to one who is perishing and wine to those in bitter distress;

Ecclesiastes 10:19

Feasts are made for laughter, wine gladdens life, and money meets every need.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has long ago approved what you do.

Song of Solomon 5:1

I come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I gather my myrrh with my spice; I eat my honeycomb with my honey; I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love.

Habakkuk 1:6

For I am rousing the Chaldeans, that fierce and impetuous nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

Matthew 11:19

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

John 2:10

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

1 Samuel 1:5

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