Genesis 42:19
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:
Genesis 42:19 in other translations
| BSB | If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households. |
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| WEB | If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses. |
| ASV | 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: |
| YLT | if ye are right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn for the famine of your houses, |
| DARBY | If ye are honest, let one of your brethren remain bound in the house of your prison, but go ye, carry grain for the hunger of your households; |
| BBE | If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families; |
| Webster | If ye are 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: |
What does Genesis 42:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 42:17-24
17-24. put them ... into ward three days--Their confinement had been designed to bring them to salutary reflection. And this object was attained, for they looked upon the retributive justice of God as now pursuing them in that foreign land. The drift of their conversation is one of the most striking instances on record of the power of conscience [Ge 42:21, 22].
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 42:7-20
Joseph was hard upon his brethren, not from a spirit of revenge, but to bring them to repentance. Not seeing his brother Benjamin, he suspected that they had made away with him, and he gave them occasion to speak of their father and brother. God, in his providence, sometimes seems harsh with those he loves, and speaks roughly to those for whom yet he has great mercy in store. Joseph settled at last, that one of them…
Genesis 42:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 42:19
- Genesis 42:26
And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
- Genesis 40:3
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
- Isaiah 42:7
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
- Isaiah 42:22
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
- Genesis 42:1-2
Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
- Genesis 41:56
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
- Jeremiah 37:15
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
- Genesis 43:1-2
And the famine was sore in the land. And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
- Genesis 45:23
And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
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Context
- Genesis 42:18
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
- Genesis 42:19
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:
- Genesis 42:20
But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
Genesis 42:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Si sois hombres de verdad, quede preso en la casa de vuestra cárcel uno de vuestros hermanos; y vosotros id, llevad el alimento para el hambre de vuestra casa: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Si vous êtes d’honnêtes gens, l’un de vous, qui êtes frères, sera lié dans la maison où vous avez été sous garde; et vous, allez, emportez du blé pour la faim de vos maisons; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn ihr redlich seid, so bleibe einer eurer Brüder gefangen im Hause eures Gewahrsams; ihr aber, ziehet hin, bringet Getreide für den Bedarf eurer Häuser; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si pacifici estis, frater vester unus ligetur in carcere: vos autem abite, et ferte frumenta quæ emistis, in domos vestras, |