Genesis 42:4 Cross References

Genesis 42:4

4: Jacob wouldn't let Joseph's younger brother, Benjamin, go with them, however, for fear some harm might come to him.

But Jacob replied, "My son will not go down with you, for his brother Joseph is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children. If anything should happen to him, you would bring my gray head down to the grave in deep sorrow."

Then the LORD God said, "The people have become as we are, knowing everything, both good and evil. What if they eat the fruit of the tree of life? Then they will live forever!"

Then, in the distance, Jacob saw Esau coming with his four hundred men.
Jacob now arranged his family into a column, with his two concubines and their children at the front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

Then my father said to us, `You know that my wife had two sons,
and that one of them went away and never returned--doubtless torn to pieces by some wild animal. I have never seen him since.
If you take away his brother from me, too, and any harm comes to him, you would bring my gray head down to the grave in deep sorrow.'
"And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father's life is bound up in the boy's life.
When he sees that the boy is not with us, our father will die. We will be responsible for bringing his gray head down to the grave in sorrow.

We said, `Yes, we have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, his youngest son. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him very much.'
And you said to us, `Bring him here so I can see him.'
But we said to you, `My lord, the boy cannot leave his father, for his father would die.'

Leaving Bethel, they traveled on toward Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). But Rachel's pains of childbirth began while they were still some distance away.
After a very hard delivery, the midwife finally exclaimed, "Don't be afraid--you have another son!"
Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath she named him Ben-oni; the baby's father, however, called him Benjamin.
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Looking at his brother Benjamin, Joseph asked, "Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about? May God be gracious to you, my son."

May God Almighty give you mercy as you go before the man, that he might release Simeon and return Benjamin. And if I must bear the anguish of their deaths, then so be it."

Let's build a great city with a tower that reaches to the skies--a monument to our greatness! This will bring us together and keep us from scattering all over the world."

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