Quotes About Love

But Jacob did not send Josephís brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”

But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”

When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”

He asked if they were well, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?”

When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his own motherís son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” Then he declared, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.

And we answered, ëWe have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boyís brother is dead. He is the only one of his motherís sons left, and his father loves him.í

So we said to my lord, ëThe boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.í

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

Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.í

So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boyís life,

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.

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaohís household soon heard of it.

Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”

Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.

Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.

You are also directed to tell them: ëTake wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.

“Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will surely bring you back. And Josephís own hands will close your eyes.”

Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!”

Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his fatherís household with food for their families.

Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.