Genesis 42:17
So he put them in prison three days.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And he put them all together into ward three days.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 40:4But the keeper of the prison delivered them to Joseph, and he served them. Some little time passed, and they were kept in custody.
Genesis 41:10Then at length the chief butler remembering, said: I confess my sin:
Acts 4:3And they laid hands upon them, and put them in hold till the next day; for it was now evening.
Hebrews 12:10And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.
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 →