Quotes about Family
Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
- Genesis 44:25
When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.
- Genesis 44:28
Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’
- Genesis 44:29
So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,
- Genesis 44:30
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
- Genesis 44:34
Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
- Genesis 45:1
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.
- Genesis 45:3
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!
- Genesis 45:4
Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
- Genesis 45:9
You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.
- Genesis 45:10
And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
- Genesis 45:11
Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.
- Genesis 45:12