Genesis 44:20

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.

He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.”

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—

Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;

They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”

The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.

For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’ ”

He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.

He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”

This is for Judah. He said, “Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries.”

She had a garment of various colors on her; for the king’s daughters who were virgins dressed in such robes. Then his servant brought her out and bolted the door after her.

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud,

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

One went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces;” and I haven’t seen him since.

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

“These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’

As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”

and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

They ask their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them. This shall not happen, neither shall it be.

“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.