Quotes about Family
We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
- Genesis 42:32
But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.’”
- Genesis 42:34
As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.
- Genesis 42:35
Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
- Genesis 42:36
Then Reuben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him.”
- Genesis 42:37
So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
- Genesis 43:2
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
- Genesis 43:4
“Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?”
- Genesis 43:6
They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”
- Genesis 43:7
And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.
- Genesis 43:8
Take your brother as well, and return to the man at once.
- Genesis 43:13
He asked if they were well, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?”
- Genesis 43:27