Quotes About Sacrifice

So the men took these gifts, along with double the amount of silver, and Benjamin as well. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

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

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 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

Then our father said, ëGo back and buy us some food.í

But we answered, ëWe cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.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.

Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boyís safety to my father, saying, ëIf I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.í

Now please let your servant stay here as my lordís slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.

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

So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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

When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

However, he did not acquire the priestsí portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.

“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lordís eyes, and we will be Pharaohís servants.”

He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.

The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ëThe LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.í

and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!í”

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her sonís foreskin, and touched it to Mosesí feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)