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Genesis 42:19

WEB

19If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

KJV

19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

BSB

19If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

FBV

19If you're truly honest, choose one of your brothers to stay here in prison. The rest of you can go back home with grain for your hungry families.

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Book of Genesis Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject

Extra References

Genesis 43:1-2

1The [+] famine was severe in the land. 2When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”


Genesis 42:26

26They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.


Genesis 41:56

56The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.


Genesis 40:3

3He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.


Isaiah 42:7

7to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.


Jeremiah 37:15

15The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.


Genesis 42:1-2

1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?” 2He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.”


Genesis 45:23

23He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.


Isaiah 42:22

22But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’