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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 · King James Version

In other versions

  • 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:

    ASV

  • 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;

    BBE

  • 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;

    DBY

  • If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison-house; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

    WEB

  • 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,

    YLT

  • If all of you be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go all of you, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

    ENG

  • 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:

    WBT

  • 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.

    BSB

In context

17And he put them all together into ward three days.

18And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

19If 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:

20But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

21And 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.

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