and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.
Genesis 42:19 - English Standard Version 2016 if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine 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 he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.
So when 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.
We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies.”
On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
and bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they did so.
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, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.
To his father he sent as follows: 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.
But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, “Restore!”
to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.