and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guards in the prison where Joseph was confined.
Genesis 42:19 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised If you are honest, let one of you be confined to the guardhouse, while the rest of you go and take grain to relieve the hunger of your households. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you are true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison, but [the rest of] you go and carry grain for those weakened with hunger in your households. American Standard Version (1901) if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses: Common English Bible If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay in prison, and the rest of you, go, take grain back to those in your households who are hungry. Catholic Public Domain Version If you are peaceful, let one of your brothers be bound in prison. Then you may go away and carry the grain that you have bought to your houses. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses. |
and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guards in the prison where Joseph was confined.
Now the famine had spread across the whole region, so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
‘We are all sons of one man. We are honest; your servants are not spies.’
On the third day Joseph said to them, ‘I fear God #– #do this and you will live.
Bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be confirmed; then you won’t die.’ And they consented to this.
The man who is the lord of the country said to us, “This is how I will know if you are honest: leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.
He sent his father the following: ten donkeys carrying the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys carrying grain, food, and provisions for his father on the journey.
But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in holes or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them and loot, with no one saying, ‘Give it back! ’
in order to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.
The officials were angry at Jeremiah and beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.