Genesis 42:17
And he put them in prison three days.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And he put them all together into ward three days.
In Context
18And he said to them on the third day, This do, and ye shall live, for I fear God.
Cross References
Genesis 40:4And the chief keeper of the prison committed them to Joseph, and he stood by them; and they were some days in the prison.
Genesis 41:10Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put us in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker.
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 →