Genesis 42:19

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.

Cross References

Genesis 40:3

sent them to the prison of the leader of the military, in which Joseph also was a prisoner.

Genesis 41:56

Then the famine increased daily in all the land. And Joseph opened all of the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. For the famine had oppressed them also.

Genesis 42:11

We are all sons of one man. We have come in peace, nor do any of your subjects devise evil."

Genesis 42:18

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.

Genesis 42:20

And bring your youngest brother to me, so that I may be able to test your words, and you may not die." They did as he had said,

Genesis 42:26

Then, having loaded their donkeys with the grain, they set out.

Genesis 42:33

And he said to us: 'Thus will I prove that you are peaceful. Release one of your brothers to me, and take necessary provisions for your houses, and go away,

Genesis 45:23

And he sent just as much money and clothing to his father, adding also ten male donkeys, with which to transport all the riches of Egypt, and as many female donkeys, carrying wheat and bread for the journey.

Isaiah 42:22

But this same people has robbed and laid waste. All their youth are a snare, and they have been hidden in houses of confinement. They have become victims; there is no one who may rescue them. They have been plundered; there is no one who may say, "Restore."

Isaiah 42:7

so that you may open the eyes of the blind, and lead out the prisoner from confinement and those sitting in darkness from the house of incarceration.

Jeremiah 37:15

And so Jeremiah went into the house of the prison and into a dungeon. And Jeremiah sat there for many days.