Cross references

Genesis 44:20

And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

Genesis 44:20 BSB

Genesis 44:20 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 37:3 (5 votes) and Genesis 42:38 (3 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 4 other books, from Genesis 29 to Luke 9.

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Which verses does Genesis 44:20 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.

  2. 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.”

  3. And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

  4. “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.

  5. His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!” Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days. …

  6. 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.”

  7. 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!”

  8. They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?” And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.

  9. And your servant my father said to us, ‘You 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. …

  10. The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

  11. Luke 7:122 votes

Which verses point to Genesis 44:20?

The 10 strongest of 15.