Genesis 42:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Genesis 42:19 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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:”
King James Version · Public Domain“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:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“if ye <FI>are<Fi> right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn <FI>for<Fi> the famine of your houses,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 42:19 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 40:3and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.
- Genesis 41:56When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 42:1When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
- Genesis 42:26and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.
- Genesis 43:1Now the famine was still severe in the land.
- Genesis 45:23And he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father’s journey.
- Isaiah 42:7to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
- Isaiah 42:22But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
- Jeremiah 37:15The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).