Top Verses from Genesis 44  

Then Judah went up to him and said: "Pardon your servant, my lord, let me speak a word to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, though you are equal to Pharaoh himself." (NIV)

Then Judah came close to [Joseph] and said, O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word to you in private, and let not your anger blaze against your servant, for you are as Pharaoh [so I will speak as if directly to him]. (AMP)

Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. (KJV)

Now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house: "Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the mouth of his sack." (NIV)

AND HE commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. (AMP)

And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. (KJV)

"Isn't this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination? This is a wicked thing you have done." (NIV)

Is it not my master's drinking cup with which he divines [the future]? You have done wrong in doing this. (AMP)

Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing. (KJV)

"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." (NIV)

And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? What shall we reply? Or how shall we clear ourselves, since God has found out and exposed the iniquity of your servants? Behold, we are my lord's slaves, the rest of us as well as he with whom the cup is found. (AMP)

And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found. (KJV)

And we answered, 'We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.' (NIV)

And we said to my lord, We have a father--an old man--and a young [brother, the] child of his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's [offspring], and his father loves him. (AMP)

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. (KJV)

If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery.' (NIV)

And if you take this son also from me, and harm or accident should befall him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow and evil to Sheol (the place of the dead). (AMP)

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. (KJV)

Then put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack, along with the silver for his grain." And he did as Joseph said." (NIV)

And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money. And [the steward] did according to what Joseph had said. (AMP)

And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. (KJV)

Joseph was still in the house when Judah and his brothers came in, and they threw themselves to the ground before him. (NIV)

Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, for he was still there; and they fell prostrate before him. (AMP)

And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground. (KJV)

"Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers." (NIV)

Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant remain instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his [half] brothers. (AMP)

Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. (KJV)

Sees that the boy isn't there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow. (NIV)

When he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die; and your servants will be responsible for his death and will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. (AMP)

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. (KJV)