Genesis 42:19

Translations

Modern

If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

Traditional

If 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:

Literal

If you are honest, let one of your brothers be confined in the house of your custody, and you go and carry grain for the famine of your houses.

Latin

Si pacifici estis, frater vester unus ligetur in carcere: vos autem abite, et ferte frumenta quæ emistis, in domos vestras,

Original

Hebrew

English

If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

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

7 years of faminec. 1708 BC
Joseph's brothers go to Egyptc. 1707 BC

Related verses

Isaiah 42:7
…to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
Genesis 40:3
…and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.
Jeremiah 37:15
The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
Genesis 42:1–2
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
Genesis 41:56
When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 42:26
…and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.
Isaiah 42:22
But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
Genesis 43:1–2
Now the famine was still severe in the land.
Genesis 45:23
And he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father’s journey.

Glossary

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

Topics

Commerce: Carried on by Egyptians Commerce: Egyptians Dissembling: Joseph Prison: General Scriptures Concerning Prisons used for Confining: Suspected Persons Prisons: Persons Confined in Often Bound with Fetters

Genesis 42:19

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