Genesis 42:19

Modern English Version

If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in your prison house. The rest of you go and carry grain for the famine of your households.

Cross References

Genesis 40:3

So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.

Genesis 41:56

The famine was over all the face of the earth, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, and the famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 42:11

We are all one man’s sons. We are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”

Genesis 42:18

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this and live, for I fear God.

Genesis 42:20

Nevertheless, bring your youngest brother to me so that your words may be verified and you shall not die.” And they did so.

Genesis 42:26

They loaded their donkeys with the grain and departed from there.

Genesis 42:33

“The man, the lord of the country, said to us, ‘Here is how I may know that you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers here with me, take food for the famine of your households, and be gone.

Genesis 45:23

To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father on the journey.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people robbed and despoiled; they are all snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses; they are for a prey, and no one delivers, for a spoil, and no one says, “Restore them.”

Isaiah 42:7

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Jeremiah 37:15

Therefore the officials were wrathful with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.