Genesis 42:19
If ye, are, honest men, one brother of you shall be kept as a prisoner in your house of ward,—but, ye, go, take in corn for the famine of your houses;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
18And Joseph said unto them on the third day, This, do and live,—God himself, do, I, revere.
Cross References
Genesis 41:56Now, the famine, was over all the face of the land,—so Joseph opened all [places] wherein it was and sold corn to the Egyptians, and the famine laid fast hold of the land of Egypt.
Genesis 42:26So they lifted up their corn on their asses,—and went their way, from thence.
Genesis 45:23Moreover, to his father, sent he as followeth—ten he-asses, laden from the best of Egypt,—and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and nourishing food for his father for the way.
Isaiah 42:22But, that, is a people preyed upon and plundered, Snared in holes, all of them, And, in houses of restraint, concealed,—They have become a prey, and there is none to deliver,—A booty, and there is none to say—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 →