Questions in Genesis

44:15

Joseph said to them, “What is this you have done?  Don’t you know that a man like me can find things out by divination? ”

44:16

“What can we say to my lord? ” Judah  replied. “What can we say? How can we prove our innocence?  God has uncovered your servants’  guilt. We are now my lord’s slaves —we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup. ”

44:19

My lord asked his servants,  ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

44:34

How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery  that would come on my father.”

45:3

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?”  But his brothers were not able to answer him,  because they were terrified at his presence.

46:33

When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’

47:3

Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What is your occupation?” 

   “Your servants  are shepherds, ” they replied to Pharaoh, “just as our fathers were.”

47:8

Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”

47:15

When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone,  all Egypt came to Joseph  and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes?  Our money is all gone.”

47:19

Why should we perish before your eyes —we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food,  and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh.  Give us seed so that we may live and not die,  and that the land may not become desolate.”

48:8

When Israel  saw the sons of Joseph,  he asked, “Who are these?”

49:9

You are a lion’s  cub,  Judah; 

 you return from the prey,  my son.

 Like a lion he crouches and lies down,

 like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?

50:19

But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

[Message No: 7985]