With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
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With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
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With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen.
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With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.'
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Genesis 44:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 31:32 Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
- Genesis 43:18 The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
- Genesis 44:16 Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”
- Job 31:38-40 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together; if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life, let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
- Psalms 7:3-5 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands, if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary), let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust.
- Acts 25:11 For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 44:9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be…
Gen 44:9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen.
Ver. 9. With whomsoever it be found, &c.] Innocency is bold, but withal had need to be wise, for fear of further inconvenience. {See Trapp on "Gen 31:32"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This overdaring offer proceeded from hence, that they were…
This overdaring offer proceeded from hence, that they were all conscious of their own innocency, and did not suspect any fraud or artifice in the matter.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain With whomsoever of thy servants it be found,.... The…
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found,.... The silver cup:
both let him die; which was rashly said, since they might have thought the cup might be put in one of their sacks unknown to them, as their money had been before; and besides, death was a punishment too severe for such a crime, and therefore is by the steward himself moderated; but this they said the more strongly to express their innocence:
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and we also will be my lord's bondmen; his servants, as long as they lived: this was likewise carrying the matter too far, and exceeding all bounds of justice, which could only require satisfaction of the offender.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. Let him die — Their words on the…
9. Let him die — Their words on the occasion show the intensity of their feeling and excitement, and their entire action evinced their consciousness of innocency as to the charge of stealing the cup.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. With whomsoever] Joseph’s brethren propose the harshest possible…
9. With whomsoever] Joseph’s brethren propose the harshest possible penalty, death for the thief, and slavery for all the company. Cf. Jacob’s proposal in Gen_31:32.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 44:9-10 The punishment that the brothers proposed was harsher…
44:9-10 The punishment that the brothers proposed was harsher than necessary; it was normal in antiquity to stake your life on what you said. The palace manager was agreeable but enforced a punishment that matched Joseph’s intentions (44:17).
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