Genesis 44:16 Cross References - NSB

¹⁶ »Sir, what can we say?« Judah replied. »How can we prove we are innocent? God has shown that we are guilty. And now all of us are your slaves, especially the one who had the cup.«

⁷ »We were all in the field tying up sheaves of wheat. My sheaf got up and stood up straight. Yours formed a circle around mine and bowed down to it.«

⁹ Joseph had another dream and told his brothers: »I had another dream, in which I saw the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowing down to me.«

¹⁸ Before he arrived, they saw him coming and made plans to kill him. ¹⁹ They said to one another: »Look, here comes the hero of those dreams! ²⁰ »Let us kill him and throw him into a water pit. We can say that some wild animal ate him. Then we will see what happens to those dreams.« ²¹ Reuben heard this and tried to protect Joseph from them. »Let us not kill him,« he said. ²² »Do not murder him or even harm him. Just throw him into a dry well out here in the desert.« Reuben planned to rescue Joseph later and take him back to his father. ²³ When Joseph came to his brothers, they pulled off his fancy coat. ²⁴ They put him into a water pit. It had no water in it. ²⁵ As they sat down to eat, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying the materials for cosmetics, medicine, and embalming. They were on their way to take them to Egypt. ²⁶ Judah asked his brothers: »What will we gain by killing our brother and covering up his death? ²⁷ »Let us sell him to the Ishmaelites. Let us not hurt him, because he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.« His brothers agreed. ²⁸ Some of the Midianite traders approached. The brothers pulled Joseph out of the well and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites. They took him to Egypt.

²¹ They said to one another: »Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw his distress when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.« ²² Reuben said: »Did I not tell you? Did I say, ‘Do not sin against the boy’? You would not listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood.«

⁸ Then Judah said to his father Israel: »Send the boy along with me. Let us get going so that we will not starve to death. ⁹ »I guarantee that he will come back. You can hold me responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here in front of you, you can blame me the rest of my life.

⁹ »If you find that one of us has the cup, then kill him. The rest of us will become your slaves.«

³² »I promised my father I would bring him home safely. If I do not, I told my father he could blame me the rest of my life.

²³ »If you do not keep your promise, I warn you that you will be sinning against Jehovah. Do not doubt this, you will be punished for your sin.

¹ »When there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case. They justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

¹ The children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the children of Israel.

¹⁸ And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

⁷ And Adoni-bezek said: »Seventy kings with their big toes cut off have gathered food scrapes under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done.« So they brought him to Jerusalem where he died.

¹⁰ »And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? For we have not obeyed your laws,

¹⁵ »O Jehovah, God of Israel, righteousness is yours. We are only a small band that has been kept from death this day. See, we are before you in our sin. For no one may keep his place before you because of this.«

⁴ »I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I will put my hand over my mouth.

¹⁵ Justify the wicked or condemn the just. Both are abomination to Jehovah.

¹⁷ A violent and bloodthirsty man will run to the pit; let no man help him.

³ »Now then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judah, judge between my vineyard and me!

⁹ By this Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruitage of the removal of his sin. When he makes all the altar stones to be like chalk stones crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing.

⁷ »O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

² »As you judge, so you will be judged. As you measure, it will be measured to you.

² »Everything covered up will be revealed. Everything hidden will be made known.

³⁷ Now when they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: »Men and brothers, what shall we do?«