Genesis 42:19
if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain in prison, but you go, carry grain to supply the needs of your households
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In Context
18Then Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this, and live, for I respect God:
20and bring your youngest brother to me. So will your words be verified, and you will not die.”
Cross References
Genesis 41:56So when the famine was universal throughout the earth, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold food to the Egyptians: but the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 42:26So they loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed.
Genesis 45:23To his father he sent the following gifts: ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father on the journey.
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 →