Genesis 42:19
If ye be peaceable, let one of your brethren be detained in prison; but go ye, and carry back the corn ye have purchased.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
18And he said to them on the third day, This do, and ye shall live, for I fear God.
Cross References
Genesis 41:56And the famine was on the face of all the earth; and Joseph opened all the granaries, and sold to all the Egyptians.
Genesis 42:26And having put the corn on the asses, they departed thence.
Genesis 45:23And to his father he sent presents at the same rate, and ten asses, bearing some of all the good things of Egypt, and ten mules, bearing bread for his father for thy journey.
Isaiah 42:22And I beheld, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for there is a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.
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 →