Genesis 37:29-30
37:29 Later Reuben returned to the cistern to find that Joseph was not in it! He tore his clothes,
37:30 returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”
Genesis 37:34-35
37:34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth,
and mourned for his son many days.
37:35 All his sons and daughters stood by
him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.”
So Joseph’s
father wept for him.
Genesis 42:36-38
42:36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone.
Simeon is gone.
And now you want to take
Benjamin! Everything is against me.”
42:37 Then Reuben said to his father, “You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care and I will bring him back to you.”
42:38 But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave.”
Genesis 42:2
42:2 He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us
so that we may live
and not die.”
Genesis 13:1
Abram’s Solution to the Strife
13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.
Genesis 13:1
Abram’s Solution to the Strife
13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.
Genesis 18:33
18:33 The Lord went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.
Job 1:20
1:20 Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.