Quotes about Responsibility
If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.
— Genesis 42:19
And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”
— Genesis 42:22
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
I will guarantee his safety. You may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my life.
— Genesis 43:9
Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.
— Genesis 43:12
If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”
— Genesis 44:9
“As you say,” replied the steward. “But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame.”
— Genesis 44:10
So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
— Genesis 44:22
Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
— Genesis 44:25
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
Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
— Genesis 44:32