"And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; {for} I fear God:" — Genesis 42:18

Genesis 42:18 · KJV

“And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; {for} I fear God:”

— Genesis 42:18

And he put them all together into ward three days. {put: Heb. gathered}

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 — Context

Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether {there be any} truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye {are} spies. {kept...: Heb. bound}

And he put them all together into ward three days. {put: Heb. gathered}

And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; {for} I fear God:

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:

But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

Cross References

Leviticus 25:43

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors that {had been} before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Genesis 20:11

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God {is} not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

Luke 18:2

Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: {in a city: Gr. in a certain city}

Nehemiah 5:9

Also I said, It {is} not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

Luke 18:4

And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;