Quotes about Father
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
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
“It is fine,” said the steward. “Do not be afraid. Your God, the God of your father, gave you the treasure that was in your sacks. I received your silver.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.
— Genesis 43:23
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
“Your servant our father is well,” they answered. “He is still alive.” And they bowed down to honor him.
— Genesis 43:28
My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
— Genesis 44:19
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
So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
— Genesis 44:22
Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.
— Genesis 44:24
Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
— Genesis 44:25
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