So Pharaoh put them in the same prison as Joseph. Potiphar, the commander of Pharaoh’s guards, was in charge of this prison.
Genesis 42:19 - Easy To Read Version If you are really honest men, then one of your brothers can stay here in prison. And the others can go and carry grain back to your people. 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. |
So Pharaoh put them in the same prison as Joseph. Potiphar, the commander of Pharaoh’s guards, was in charge of this prison.
There was famine [241] everywhere, so Joseph gave the people grain from the warehouses. Joseph sold the stored grain to the people of Egypt. The famine was bad in Egypt.
We are all brothers—we all have the same father. We are honest men. We have come only to buy food.”
After three days, Joseph said to them, “I am a God-fearing man! Do this, and I will let you live.
But then you must bring your youngest brother back here to me. Then I will know that you are telling the truth and you won’t have to die.”
“Then the governor of that country said this to us, ‘Here is a way to prove that you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me. Take your grain back to your families.
Joseph also sent gifts to his father. He sent ten donkeys with bags full of many good things from Egypt. And he sent ten female donkeys full of grain, bread, and other food for his father on his trip back.
But look at the people.\par Other people have defeated them\par and have stolen things from them.\par All the young men are afraid.\par They are locked in the prisons.\par People have taken their money from them.\par And there is no person to save them.\par Other people took their money.\par And there was no person to say,\par “Give it back!”\par
You will open the eyes of the blind people,\par and they will be able to see.\par Many people are in prison;\par you will free those people.\par Many people live in darkness;\par you will lead them out of that prison.\par
Those officials were very angry with Jeremiah. They gave an order for Jeremiah to be beaten. Then they put Jeremiah in a prison. The prison was in the house of a man named Jonathan. Jonathan was a scribe {\cf2\super [322]} for the king of Judah. Jonathan’s house had been made into a prison.