Parallel Verses
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,
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;
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.
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 said unto the third day, "This do and live, for I fear God. 19 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, 20 and bring your youngest brother unto me: that your words may be believed, and that ye die not." And they did so.
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Cross References
Genesis 40:3
even in the prison where Joseph was bound.
Genesis 41:56
And when the dearth was throughout all the land, Joseph opened all that was in the cities, and sold unto the Egyptians. And hunger waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 42:1-2
When Jacob saw that there was corn to be sold in Egypt, he said unto his sons, "Why are ye negligent?
Genesis 42:26
And they laded their asses with the corn and departed thence.
Genesis 43:1-2
And the dearth waxed sore in the land.
Genesis 45:23
And unto his father he sent, after the same manner, ten he asses laden with goods out of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn, bread and meat: to serve his father by the way.
Isaiah 42:7
That thou mayest open the eyes of the blind; let out the prisoners, and them that sit in darkness, out of the dungeon house.
Isaiah 42:22
But it is a mischevious and wicked people. Their young men belong all to the snare, and shall be shut into prison houses. They shall be carried away captive, and no man shall loose them. They shall be trodden under foot, and no man shall labour to bring them again.
Jeremiah 37:15
Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, causing him to be beaten, and to be laid in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For he was the ruler of the prison.