Genesis 42:19

if you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in your [place here in] prison; but as for the rest of you, go, carry grain for the famine in your households,

Genesis 40:3

He put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.

Genesis 41:56

When the famine was spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold [surplus grain] to the Egyptians; and the famine grew [extremely] severe in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 42:1-2

Now when Jacob (Israel) learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another [in bewilderment and not taking action]?”

Genesis 42:26

They loaded their donkeys with grain and left from there.

Genesis 43:1-2

Now the famine was very severe in the land [of Canaan].

Genesis 45:23

To his father he sent the following: ten male donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father [to supply all who were with him] on the journey.

Isaiah 42:7


To open the eyes of the blind,
To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who sit in darkness from the prison.

Isaiah 42:22


But this is a people despoiled and plundered;
All of them are trapped in holes,
Or are hidden away in prisons.
They have become a prey with no one to rescue them,
And a spoil, with no one to say, “Give them back!”

Jeremiah 37:15

The princes were enraged with Jeremiah and beat him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe—for they had made that the prison.

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Summary

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:

General references

Bible References

House

Genesis 40:3
He put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.
Isaiah 42:7

To open the eyes of the blind,
To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who sit in darkness from the prison.
Jeremiah 37:15
The princes were enraged with Jeremiah and beat him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe—for they had made that the prison.

Carry corn

Genesis 42:1
Now when Jacob (Israel) learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another [in bewilderment and not taking action]?”
Genesis 41:56
When the famine was spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold [surplus grain] to the Egyptians; and the famine grew [extremely] severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 43:1
Now the famine was very severe in the land [of Canaan].
Genesis 45:23
To his father he sent the following: ten male donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father [to supply all who were with him] on the journey.

General references

Genesis 42:33
And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, ‘By this [test] I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers here with me and take grain for your starving households and go.
Genesis 44:23
You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes with you, you shall not see my face again.’