Quotes about Father
He asked if they were well, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?”
— Genesis 43:27
“Your servant our father is well,” they answered. “He is still alive.” And they bowed down to honor him.
— Genesis 43:28
My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
— Genesis 44:19
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
So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
— Genesis 44:22
Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.
— Genesis 44:24
Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy us some food.’
— Genesis 44:25
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.
— Genesis 44:31
Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
— Genesis 44:32
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
— Genesis 44:34
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.
— Genesis 45:3
Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”
— Genesis 45:13