Genesis 42:18
And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
In Context
17So he put them in prison for three days.
Cross References
Exodus 1:17But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.
Leviticus 25:43Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.
Nehemiah 5:15But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
Luke 18:4And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for 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 →