"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 o…" — Genesis 42:19

Genesis 42:19 · KJV

“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

Verse 18

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

Verse 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 — Context

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.

And they said one to another, We {are} verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

Cross References

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 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. {laden...: Heb. carrying}

Genesis 42:26

And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

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?

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. {they are all...: or, in snaring all the young men of them} {for a spoil: Heb. a treading}

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.

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. {all the storehouses: Heb. all wherein was}

Genesis 43:1-2

And the famine {was} sore in the land.