Genesis 42:18
And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live, for I fear God:
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
In Context
17And he put them all together into ward three days.
Cross References
Exodus 1:17But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.
Leviticus 25:43Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God.
Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors who were before me charged the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.
Luke 18:4And for a time he would not, but after these things he said within himself, Although I fear not God, and regard not man,
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:8-21
Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1706.) 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy… Read the whole commentary →