Bible Cross References
Benjamin
Genesis 35:16-19
16
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.
17
When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, Rachel; it's another boy."
18
But she was dying, and as she breathed her last, she named her son Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
19
When Rachel died, she was buried beside the road to Ephrath, now known as Bethlehem.
Lest
Genesis 42:38
But Jacob said, "My son cannot go with you; his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. Something might happen to him on the way. I am an old man, and the sorrow you would cause me would kill me."
Genesis 3:22
Then the LORD God said, "Now these human beings have become like one of us and have knowledge of what is good and what is bad. They must not be allowed to take fruit from the tree that gives life, eat it, and live forever."
Genesis 11:4
They said, "Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."
Genesis 33:1
Jacob saw Esau coming with his four hundred men, so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two concubines.
Genesis 33:2
He put the concubines and their children first, then Leah and her children, and finally Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Genesis 43:14
May Almighty God cause the man to have pity on you, so that he will give Benjamin and your other brother back to you. As for me, if I must lose my children, I must lose them."
Genesis 43:29
When Joseph saw his brother Benjamin, he said, "So this is your youngest brother, the one you told me about. God bless you, my son."
Genesis 44:20-22
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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.'
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Sir, you told us to bring him here, so that you could see him,
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and we answered that the boy could not leave his father; if he did, his father would die.
Genesis 44:27-34
27
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.
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.'
30
"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.
32
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.
33
And now, sir, I will stay here as your slave in place of the boy; let him go back with his brothers.
34
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."