Genesis 42:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And Joseph said to them on the third day, Do this and live! I reverence and fear God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

Common English Bible

¹⁸ On the third day, Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I’m a God-fearing man.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Then, on the third day, he brought them out of prison, and he said: "Do as I have said, and you will live. For I fear God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live; for I fear God.

Genesis 42:18 Cross References

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

Genesis 39:9

he is not greater in this house than I am; nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife; how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

Genesis 42:19

if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined in your prison, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households,

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens upon the people, and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:9

So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?

Job 1:1

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

Exodus 18:21

Moreover choose able men from all the people, such as fear God, men who are trustworthy and who hate a bribe; and place such men over the people as rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Leviticus 25:17

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:43

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

Luke 18:2

He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man;

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor regard man,