Parallel Verses
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.
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:
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,
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;
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 And Joseph will say to them in the third day, This do ye, and live, I fearing God. 19 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. 20 And ye shall bring your little brother to me, and your words shall be believed, and ye shall not die. And they will do so.
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Cross References
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.
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 42:1-2
And when Jacob shall see there is selling in Egypt, Jacob will say to his sons, For what will ye look?
Genesis 42:26
And they will lift up the grain upon their asses, and they will go from thence.
Genesis 43:1-2
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.
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.
Isaiah 42:22
And this people was plundered and spoiled; snaring all of them in holes, and they were hid in houses of prisons: they were for plunder and none delivering; a treading down, and none said, Turn back
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.