Genesis 42:19
What does Genesis 42:19 mean?
A plain-English look at Genesis 42:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000if 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:
KJV
King James Version · 1611If 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:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901if 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:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862if ye <FI>are<Fi> right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn <FI>for<Fi> the famine of your houses,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890If ye are honest, let one of your brethren remain bound in the house of your prison, but go ye, carry grain for the hunger of your households;
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 42:1
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
- Jeremiah 37:15
And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
- Genesis 45:23
And to his father he sent after this manner: ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
- Genesis 41:56
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 40:3
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
- Genesis 43:1
And the famine was sore in the land.
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