Genesis 42:19

Good News Translation

To prove that you are honest, one of you will stay in the prison where you have been kept; the rest of you may go and take back to your starving families the grain that you have bought.

Cross References

Genesis 40:3

and put them in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same place where Joseph was being kept.

Genesis 41:56

The famine grew worse and spread over the whole country, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians.

Genesis 42:11

We are all brothers. We are not spies, sir, we are honest men.”

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, “I am a God-fearing man, and I will spare your lives on one condition.

Genesis 42:20

Then you must bring your youngest brother to me. This will prove that you have been telling the truth, and I will not put you to death.” They agreed to this

Genesis 42:26

The brothers loaded their donkeys with the grain they had bought, and then they left.

Genesis 42:33

The man answered, ‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men: One of you will stay with me; the rest will take grain for your starving families and leave.

Genesis 45:23

He sent his father ten donkeys loaded with the best Egyptian goods and ten donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and other food for the trip.

Isaiah 42:22

But now his people have been plundered; they are locked up in dungeons and hidden away in prisons. They were robbed and plundered, with no one to come to their rescue.

Isaiah 42:7

You will open the eyes of the blind and set free those who sit in dark prisons.

Jeremiah 37:15

They were furious with me and had me beaten and locked up in the house of Jonathan, the court secretary, whose house had been made into a prison.