Quotes About Loss

Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.

The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.

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

But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.í

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

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.”

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

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.

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

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.”

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

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

Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

Then Joseph fell upon his fatherís face, wept over him, and kissed him.

taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.

They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;