Genesis 42:18
And Joseph said unto them on the third day, This do, and live; I fear God.
Leeser Tanakh
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 together into ward three days.
Cross References
Exodus 1:17But the midwives feared God, and they did not as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.
Leviticus 25:43Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor; but thou shalt have fear of thy God.
Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors that had been before me had made it heavy for the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver: yea, even their young men ruled over the people; but I myself did not act so, because of the fear of God.
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 →