Genesis 42:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If you are honest men, one of you must stay here in jail, and the rest of you can take the grain back to your starving families.

Cross References

Genesis 41:56

The famine became bad everywhere in Egypt, so Joseph opened the storehouses and sold the grain to the Egyptians.

Genesis 42:11

We're honest men, and we come from the same family—we're not spies.”

Genesis 42:18

before saying to them: Since I respect God, I'll give you a chance to save your lives.

Genesis 42:20

But you must bring your youngest brother to me. Then I'll know that you are telling the truth, and you won't be put to death. Joseph's brothers agreed

Genesis 42:26

they each loaded the grain on their donkeys and left.

Genesis 42:33

Then the governor of Egypt told us, “I'll find out if you really are honest. Leave one of your brothers here with me, while you take the grain to your starving families.

Genesis 45:23

To his father he sent ten donkeys loaded with the best things in Egypt, and ten other donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other food for the return trip.

Isaiah 42:22

But his people were trapped and imprisoned in holes with no one to rescue them. All they owned had been taken, and no one was willing to give it back.

Isaiah 42:7

You will give sight to the blind; you will set prisoners free from dark dungeons.

Jeremiah 37:15

They were angry and ordered the soldiers to beat me. Then I was taken to the house that belonged to Jonathan, one of the king's officials. It had been turned into a prison, and I was kept in a basement room. After I had spent a long time there,