Genesis 42:19

New Century Version

If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison while the rest of you go and carry grain back to feed your hungry families.

Cross References

Genesis 40:3

so he put them in the prison of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was kept.

Genesis 41:56

The hunger was everywhere in that part of the world. And Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the people of Egypt, because the time of hunger became terrible in Egypt.

Genesis 42:11

We are all sons of the same father. We are honest men, not spies.”

Genesis 42:18

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

Genesis 42:20

Then bring your youngest brother back here to me. If you do this, I will know you are telling the truth, and you will not die.” The brothers agreed to this.

Genesis 42:26

So the brothers put the grain on their donkeys and left.

Genesis 42:33

“Then the master of the land said to us, ‘Here is a way I can know you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain to feed your hungry families, and go.

Genesis 45:23

Joseph also sent his father ten donkeys loaded with the best things from Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and other food for his father on his trip back.

Isaiah 42:22

These people have been defeated and robbed. They are trapped in pits or locked up in prison. Like robbers, enemies have taken them away, and there is no one to save them. Enemies carried them off, and no one said, “Bring them back.”

Isaiah 42:7

You will help the blind to see. You will free those who are in prison, and you will lead those who live in darkness out of their prison.

Jeremiah 37:15

Those rulers were very angry with Jeremiah and beat him. Then they put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the royal secretary, which had been made into a prison.