Genesis 42:18
And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 three days.
Cross References
Exodus 1:17But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.
Leviticus 25:43Afflict him not by might, but fear thy God.
Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sides: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.
Luke 18:4And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God, nor regard 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 →