Quotes about Loss
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
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
And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
— Genesis 44:20
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
sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
— Genesis 44:31
Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
— Genesis 48:7
Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.
— Genesis 50:1
When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
— Genesis 50:10
If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.
— Exodus 22:15
When the people heard these bad tidings, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry.
— Exodus 33:4
When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.
— Numbers 20:29
Now when all the fighting men among the people had died,
— Deuteronomy 2:16