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.


In Context

16 Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"

17 And he put them all in custody for three days.

18 On the third day, Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

19 If 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.

20 But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die." This they proceeded to do.

21 They said to one another, "Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that's why this distress has 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

42:19If 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.

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: