Genesis 42:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 7 So he put them in prison three days.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Send one of you and let him bring your brother, and you will be kept in prison, that your words may be proved whether there is any truth in you; or else by the life of Pharaoh you certainly are spies.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Send one of you to get your brother, but the rest of you will stay in prison. We will find out if your words are true. If not, as Pharaoh lives, you are certainly spies.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Send one of you and bring him. But you will be in chains, until what you have said is proven to be either true or false. Otherwise, by the health of Pharaoh, you are scouts."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.

Genesis 42:16 Cross References

Genesis 42:11

2 And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.

Genesis 42:30

1 And we answered him: We are peaceable men, and we mean no plot.

2 Samuel 10:3

And the children of Ammon came out, and set their men in array at the entering in of the gate: but the Syrians of Soba, and of Rohob, and of Istob, and of Maacha were by themselves in the field.

Joshua 2:1

But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there.