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Genesis 42:19

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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:

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Genesis 42:19 in other translations

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.

Genesis 42:19 · World English Bible

Genesis 42:19 in context

  1. 17And he put them all together into ward three days.
  2. 18And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
  3. 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:
  4. 20and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
  5. 21And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.