Genesis 42:19

Bible in Basic English 1965

If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

Cross References

Genesis 40:3

And he put them in prison under the care of the captain of the army, in the same prison where Joseph himself was shut up.

Genesis 41:56

And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 42:11

We are all one man's sons, we are true men; we have not come with any secret purpose.

Genesis 42:18

And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

Genesis 42:20

And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.

Genesis 42:26

Then they put the bags of grain on their asses and went away.

Genesis 42:33

And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

Genesis 45:23

And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.

Isaiah 42:7

To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

Jeremiah 37:15

And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.