Genesis 43:8
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8 Judah said to his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will be on our way. Otherwise we will all die of starvation—and not only we, but you and our little ones.
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Genesis 42:2
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2 I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy enough grain to keep us alive. Otherwise we’ll die.”
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Deuteronomy 33:6
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6 Moses said this about the tribe of Reuben:[a]
“Let the tribe of Reuben live and not die out,
though they are few in number.”
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- 33:6 Hebrew lacks Moses said this about the tribe of Reuben.
Psalm 118:17
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17 I will not die; instead, I will live
to tell what the Lord has done.
Ezra 8:21
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21 And there by the Ahava Canal, I gave orders for all of us to fast and humble ourselves before our God. We prayed that he would give us a safe journey and protect us, our children, and our goods as we traveled.
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2 Kings 7:13
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13 One of his officers replied, “We had better send out scouts to check into this. Let them take five of the remaining horses. If something happens to them, it will be no worse than if they stay here and die with the rest of us.”
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2 Kings 7:4
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4 “We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.”
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Numbers 14:31
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31 “‘You said your children would be carried off as plunder. Well, I will bring them safely into the land, and they will enjoy what you have despised.
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Exodus 20:12
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12 “Honor your father and mother. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
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Genesis 50:21
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21 No, don’t be afraid. I will continue to take care of you and your children.” So he reassured them by speaking kindly to them.
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Genesis 50:8
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8 Joseph also took his entire household and his brothers and their households. But they left their little children and flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
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Genesis 45:19
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19 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt to carry your little children and your wives, and bring your father here.
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Genesis 44:26
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26 we replied, ‘We can’t go unless you let our youngest brother go with us. We’ll never get to see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
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Genesis 42:38
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38 But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down with you. His brother Joseph is dead, and he is all I have left. If anything should happen to him on your journey, you would send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.[a]”
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- 42:38 Hebrew to Sheol.
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