Genesis 42:19
“If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: goe ye, carry corne for the famine of your houses.”
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Genesis 42:19 Context
17And he put them all together into warde, three dayes. 18And Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This doe, and liue: for I feare God. 19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: goe ye, carry corne for the famine of your houses. 20But bring your yongest brother vnto mee, so shall your wordes be verified, and yee shall not die: and they did so. 21¶ And they said one to another, We are verily guiltie concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soule, when he besought vs, and we would not heare: therefore is this distresse come vpon vs.
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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:
- King James Version
if you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in your prison; but as for {the rest of} you, go, carry grain for the famine of your households,
- New American Standard Version (1995)