Genesis 42:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

if you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here where you are imprisoned. The rest of you shall go and carry grain for the famine of your households

Cross References

Jeremiah 37:15

The officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of the secretary Jonathan, for it had been made a prison.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people robbed and plundered; all of them are trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with no one to rescue, a spoil with no one to say, “Restore!”

Isaiah 42:7

to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

Genesis 45:23

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

Genesis 42:26

They loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed.

Genesis 41:56

And since the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 40:3

and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.

Genesis 42:11

We are all sons of one 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 will live, for I fear God:

Genesis 42:20

and bring your youngest brother to me. Thus your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they agreed to do so.

Genesis 42:33

Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.