Genesis 42:19

If 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:

If ye be true {H3651} men, let one {H259} of your brethren {H251} be bound {H631} in the house {H1004} of your prison {H4929}: go {H3212} ye, carry {H935} corn {H7668} for the famine {H7459} of your houses {H1004}:

If you are upright men, let one of your brothers remain incarcerated in the prison you're being kept in, while you go and carry grain back to relieve the famine in your homes.

If 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.

if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses:

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Cross-References

  • Genesis 42:26 (2 votes)

    And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

  • Genesis 40:3 (2 votes)

    And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph [was] bound.

  • Jeremiah 37:15 (2 votes)

    Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

  • Genesis 41:56 (2 votes)

    And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

  • Isaiah 42:22 (2 votes)

    But this [is] a people robbed and spoiled; [they are] all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

  • Isaiah 42:7 (2 votes)

    To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

  • Genesis 42:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?