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Genesis 44:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’ "
Genesis 44:20
Verse in Context
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18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
19 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’
20 We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’
21 You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’
22 We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’
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Genesis 44:1
"He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth."
Genesis 44:2
"Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken."
Genesis 44:3
"As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys."
Genesis 44:4
"When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?"
Genesis 44:5
"Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”"
Genesis 44:6
"He overtook them, and he spoke these words to them."
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