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Genesis 42:17

American Standard Version

And he put them all together into ward three days.

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Genesis 42:17 in other translations

He put them all together into custody for three days.

Genesis 42:17 · World English Bible

Genesis 42:17 in context

  1. 15hereby ye shall be proved: by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
  2. 16Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
  3. 17And he put them all together into ward three days.
  4. 18And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
  5. 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: