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Genesis 42:21

Genesis 42:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

they said: Genesis 41:9; Numbers 32:23; 2 Samuel 12:13; 1 Kings 17:18; Job 33:27-28, Job 34:31-32; Job 36:8-9; Hosea 5:15; Matthew 27:3-4; Mark 9:44, Mark 9:46, Mark 9:48; Luke 16:28; Acts 19:18

we saw: Genesis 37:23-28; Judges 1:7; Proverbs 21:13, Proverbs 24:11-12, Proverbs 28:17; Jeremiah 2:17, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 4:18; Jeremiah 34:17; Matthew 7:2; 1 John 1:9; James 2:13

this distress: Proverbs 1:27-28

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