World English Bible
Genesis 42:19
“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.”
Verse in context — Genesis 42
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He put them all together into custody for three days.
18
Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.
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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.
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Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.
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They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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