Genesis 42:18

Translations

Modern

…and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:

Traditional

And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

Literal

And Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and you will live; I fear God:

Latin

Die autem tertio eductis de carcere, ait: Facite quæ dixi, et vivetis: Deum enim timeo.

Original

Hebrew

English

…and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:

Notes

Genesis 42:18–20

Rather than keep all but one, Joseph would release all but one to take grain home to their starving families.

Genesis 42:1–44:34

Joseph did several unusual things to his brothers when they came looking for grain. The last time Joseph had been with them, they were filled with jealousy, hatred, and anger; they attempted to destroy their brother, and they deceived their father. Joseph put them through various tests, similar to the trying situations they had put him through, to see if they had changed.

Theme notes and profiles

Egypt Joseph Symbolic Numbers

Events

Related verses

Leviticus 25:43
You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.
Nehemiah 5:15
The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.
Genesis 20:11
Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
Luke 18:2
“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.
Nehemiah 5:9
So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?
Luke 18:4
For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,

People

Joseph: Son of Jacob, ruler in Egypt

Glossary

Benjamin (Person) Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Famine Genesis, Book of Jacob Patriarchs, Period of the Wheat

Topics

Commerce: Carried on by Egyptians Commerce: Egyptians Dissembling: Joseph Fear of God: Jacob, in the Vision of the Ladder, and the Covenant of God Godly Fear: Joseph Prison: General Scriptures Concerning

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