Genesis 42:18
Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
In Context
17He put them all together into custody for three days.
Cross References
Exodus 1:17But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
Leviticus 25:43You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people, but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
Luke 18:4He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
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 →