Bible Cross References
his brother
Genesis 42:13
They said, "We were twelve brothers in all, sir, sons of the same man in the land of Canaan. One brother is dead, and the youngest is now with our father."
Genesis 30:22-24
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Then God remembered Rachel; he answered her prayer and made it possible for her to have children.
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She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, "God has taken away my disgrace by giving me a son.
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May the LORD give me another son"; so she named him Joseph.
Genesis 35:16-18
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Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labor.
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When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, Rachel; it's another boy."
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But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Genesis 37:33
He recognized it and said, "Yes, it is his! Some wild animal has killed him. My son Joseph has been torn to pieces!"
Genesis 37:35
All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "I will go down to the world of the dead still mourning for my son." So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.
Genesis 44:20
We answered, 'We have a father who is old and a younger brother, born to him in his old age. The boy's brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother's children still alive; his father loves him very much.'
Genesis 44:27-34
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Our father said to us, 'You know that my wife Rachel bore me only two sons.
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One of them has already left me. He must have been torn to pieces by wild animals, because I have not seen him since he left.
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If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.'
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"And now, sir," Judah continued, "if I go back to my father without the boy, as soon as he sees that the boy is not with me, he will die. His life is wrapped up with the life of the boy, and he is so old that the sorrow we would cause him would kill him.
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What is more, I pledged my life to my father for the boy. I told him that if I did not bring the boy back to him, I would bear the blame all my life.
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And now, sir, I will stay here as your slave in place of the boy; let him go back with his brothers.
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How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I cannot bear to see this disaster come upon my father."
if mischief
Genesis 42:4
but Jacob did not send Joseph's full brother Benjamin with them, because he was afraid that something might happen to him.
Genesis 44:29
If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.'
bring
Genesis 37:35
All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "I will go down to the world of the dead still mourning for my son." So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.
Genesis 44:29
If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.'
Genesis 44:31
1 Kings 2:6
You know what to do; you must not let him die a natural death.
Psalm 71:18
Now that I am old and my hair is gray, do not abandon me, O God! Be with me while I proclaim your power and might to all generations to come.
Psalm 90:10
Seventy years is all we have--- eighty years, if we are strong; yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow; life is soon over, and we are gone.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen everything done in this world, and I tell you, it is all useless. It is like chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
God gives wisdom, knowledge, and happiness to those who please him, but he makes sinners work, earning and saving, so that what they get can be given to those who please him. It is all useless. It is like chasing the wind.
Isaiah 38:10
I thought that in the prime of life I was going to the world of the dead, Never to live out my life.
Isaiah 46:4
I am your God and will take care of you until you are old and your hair is gray. I made you and will care for you; I will give you help and rescue you.