Genesis 42:19

New American Bible - revised edition

If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in this prison, while the rest of you go and take home grain for your starving families.

Cross References

Genesis 40:3

and he put them in custody in the house of the chief steward, the same jail where Joseph was confined.

Genesis 41:56

When the famine had spread throughout the land, Joseph opened all the cities that had grain and rationed it to the Egyptians, since the famine had gripped the land of Egypt.

Genesis 42:11

All of us are sons of the same man. We are honest men; your servants have never been spies.”

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them: “Do this, and you shall live; for I am a God-fearing man.

Genesis 42:20

But you must bring me your youngest brother. Your words will thus be verified, and you will not die.” To this they agreed.

Genesis 42:26

they loaded their donkeys with the grain and departed.

Genesis 42:33

Then the man who is lord of the land said to us: ‘This is how I will know if you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, then take grain for your starving families and go.

Genesis 45:23

Moreover, what he sent to his father was ten donkeys loaded with the finest products of Egypt and another ten loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father’s journey.

Isaiah 42:22

This is a people plundered and despoiled, all of them trapped in holes, hidden away in prisons. They are taken as plunder, with no one to rescue them, as spoil, with no one to say, “Give back!”

Isaiah 42:7

To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.

Jeremiah 37:15

The princes were enraged at Jeremiah and had Jeremiah beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they were using it as a jail.