Quotes About Betrayal

Is this not the cup my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wicked!í”

We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your masterís house?

If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”

“As you say,” replied the steward. “But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame.”

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjaminís sack.

Then they all tore their clothes, loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.

When Judah and his brothers arrived at Josephís house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.

“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”

But Joseph replied, “Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace.”

And your servant my father said to us, ëYou know that my wife bore me two sons.

When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.

sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!

Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.

Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your fatherís bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.

Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horseís heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

When Josephís brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”

His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”

After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.