Parallel Verses
Amplified
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,
New American Standard Bible
if you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in
King James Version
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:
Holman Bible
If you are honest, let one of you
International Standard Version
If you're honest men, leave one of your brothers here in custody, then the rest of you can leave and take some grain with you to alleviate the famine that's affecting your households.
A Conservative Version
If ye be TRUE men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison house, but go ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses,
American Standard Version
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:
Bible in Basic English
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;
Darby Translation
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;
Julia Smith Translation
If ye true, one of your brethren shall be bound in the house of your guard, and ye yourselves go carry the selling for the famine of your houses.
King James 2000
If you be true men, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison: go, carry grain for the famine of your houses:
Lexham Expanded Bible
If you [are] honest, let one of your brothers be kept in prison {where you are now being kept}, but [the rest of] you go, carry grain for the famine for your households.
Modern King James verseion
If you are honest, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison. You go carry grain for the famine of your houses.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If ye mean no hurt, let one of your brethren be bound in the prison, and go ye and bring the necessary food unto your households,
NET Bible
If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.
New Heart English Bible
If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
The Emphasized Bible
If ye, are, honest men, one brother of you shall be kept as a prisoner in your house of ward, - but, ye, go, take in corn for the famine of your houses;
Webster
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:
World English Bible
If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
Youngs Literal Translation
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,
Themes
Commerce » Carried on by » Egyptians
Dissembling » Instances of » Joseph
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 42:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph Sends Nine Of His Brothers Back To Canaan
18 Now Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and [you may] live, for I fear God: 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, 20 but bring your youngest brother to me, so your words will be verified and you will not die.” And they did so.
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Cross References
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.