Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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:
Carry corn
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Bible References
House
Genesis 40:3
And he will give them in guard in the house of the chief of the cooks, to the house of the fortress, the place where Joseph was bound there.
Isaiah 42:7
To open the eyes of the blind, to bring forth the bound out of prison, those sitting in darkness out of the house of the prison.
Jeremiah 37:15
And the chiefs will be angry against Jeremiah and they struck him, and gave him to the house of bonds the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they made it for a house of prison.
Carry corn
Genesis 42:1
And when Jacob shall see there is selling in Egypt, Jacob will say to his sons, For what will ye look?
Genesis 41:56
And the famine was upon all the face of the earth: and Joseph will open all which in them, and he will sell to Egypt; and the famine was strong in the land of Egypt
Genesis 43:1
And the famine was heavy upon the earth.
Genesis 45:23
And to his father he sent according to this: ten asses lifting up from the good of Egypt, and ten she-asses lifting up grain and bread: and food for his father for the way.
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Genesis 42:33
And the man, the lord of the land, will say to us, In this I shall know that ye are true; leave one of your brethren with me, and take for the famine of your houses and go.
Genesis 44:23
And thou wilt say to thy servants, If your little brother shall not come down with you, ye shall not add to see my face.