But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he served them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody.
Genesis 42:19 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision 0 And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you are true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison, but [the rest of] you go and carry grain for those weakened with hunger in your households. American Standard Version (1901) 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: Common English Bible If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay in prison, and the rest of you, go, take grain back to those in your households who are hungry. Catholic Public Domain Version If you are peaceful, let one of your brothers be bound in prison. Then you may go away and carry the grain that you have bought to your houses. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses. |
But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he served them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody.
7 And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.
2 And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.
9 If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.
1 And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguished of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.
7 And one of them opening his sack, to give his beast provender in the inn, saw the money in the sack's mouth;
4 And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may know you are not spies: and you may receive this man again, that is kept in prison: and afterwards may have leave to buy what you will.
4 So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to them: Be not angry in the way.
Fear not, for I am with thee: I will. bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west.
5 I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools.
Thus saith the Lord: Whosoever shell remain in this city, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence : but he that shall go forth to the Chaldeans, shall live, and his life shall be safe, and he shall live.