Genesis 42:18
Then, on the third day, he brought them out of prison, and he said: “Do as I have said, and you will live. For I fear God.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
In Context
17Therefore, he delivered them into custody for three days.
Cross References
Exodus 1:17But the midwives feared God, and so they did not act according to the precept of the king of Egypt, but they kept the males safe.
Leviticus 25:43Do not afflict him by power, but be fearful of your God.
Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors, the ones who had been before me, were a burden to the people, and they took from them bread and wine, and forty shekels of money each day. And their officials also oppressed the people. But I did not do so, out of fear of God.
Luke 18:4And he refused to do so for a long time. But afterwards, he said within himself: ‘Even though I do not fear God, nor respect 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 →