19If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.


In Context

16 Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.

17 So he put them in prison three days.

18 And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.

19 If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.

20 And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.

21 And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguished of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.

Genesis 42:19 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:19If 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:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

42:19If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

42:19if 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:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:19If 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;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

42:19if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison house; but go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:19If 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:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:19If 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 Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

42:19if 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:19If you be true men, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison: go you, carry corn for the famine of your houses: