Genesis 42:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ 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)

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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.

Genesis 42:19 Cross References

Genesis 40:3

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

Genesis 41:56

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 was sore in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 42:11

We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.

Genesis 42:18

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

Genesis 42:20

and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

Genesis 42:26

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

Genesis 42:33

And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren with me, and take corn for the famine of your houses, and go your way:

Genesis 45:23

And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way.

Isaiah 42:22

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

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

Jeremiah 37:15

And 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.