So he put them in custody of the house of the commander of the bodyguards—in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.
Genesis 42:19 - Tree of Life Version If you’re honest, let one of your brothers remain as a prisoner in the guardhouse where you’ve been, while you, go and bring grain for the hunger in your homes. 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 he put them in custody of the house of the commander of the bodyguards—in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.
The famine was over all the entire land, so Joseph opened up all that was among them and sold grain to Egypt. Then the famine became severe in the land of Egypt.
All of us—we are sons of one man. We’re honest. Your servants have never been spies.”
Then Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and you will live. I fear God.
And your youngest brother, bring to me so that your words can be verified—and you won’t die.” So they did.
Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I’ll know if you’re honest: leave one of your brothers with me. As for the hunger of your homes: take and go!
Also to his father he sent the following: ten donkeys carrying from the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys carrying grain and food and provisions for his father’s journey.
But this is a people robbed and looted. all of them trapped in holes, hidden away in prisons. They have become a prey with no one to deliver them, and plunder, with none to say, “Give them back!”
by opening blind eyes, bringing prisoners out of the dungeon, and those sitting in darkness out of the prison house.
The officials were angry with Jeremiah, had him beaten, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made that the prison.