Genesis 44:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Look, the money that we found at the top of our sacks, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan; why then would we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?

Cross References

Genesis 42:21

They said to one another, “Alas, we are paying the penalty for what we did to our brother; we saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this anguish has come upon us.”

Genesis 42:27

When one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money at the top of the sack.

Genesis 42:35

As they were emptying their sacks, there in each one’s sack was his bag of money. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were dismayed.

Genesis 43:12

Take double the money with you. Carry back with you the money that was returned in the top of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.

Genesis 43:18

Now the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph’s house, and they said, “It is because of the money, replaced in our sacks the first time, that we have been brought in, so that he may have an opportunity to fall upon us, to make slaves of us and take our donkeys.”

Genesis 44:7

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

Exodus 20:15

“You shall not steal.

Matthew 19:18

He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness.

Romans 13:9

The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; you shall not murder; you shall not steal; you shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Deuteronomy 5:19

“ ‘Neither shall you steal.