Genesis 42:17
and he gathers them into confinement [for] three days.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And he put them all together into ward three days.
In Context
18And Joseph says to them on the third day, “Do this and live; I fear God!
Cross References
Genesis 40:4and the chief of the executioners charges Joseph with them, and he serves them; and they are in confinement [for some] days.
Genesis 41:10Pharaoh has been angry against his servants, and puts me in confinement in the house of the chief of the executioners, me and the chief of the bakers;
Psalms 119:65[TETH] You did good with Your servant, O YHWH, || According to Your word.
Acts 4:3and they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was evening already;
Hebrews 12:10For they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were disciplining, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;
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 →