Genesis 42:19
Good News Translation
To prove that you are honest, one of you will stay in the prison where you have been kept; the rest of you may go and take back to your starving families the grain that you have bought.

New Revised Standard Version
if you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here where you are imprisoned. The rest of you shall go and carry grain for the famine of your households,

Contemporary English Version
If you are honest men, one of you must stay here in jail, and the rest of you can take the grain back to your starving families.

New American Bible
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in this prison, while the rest of you go and take home grain for your starving families.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.

house.

Genesis 40:3 He sent them to the prison of the commander of the soldiers, in which Joseph also was prisoner.

Isaiah 42:7,22 That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. . . .

Jeremiah 37:15 So Jeremiah went into the house of the prison, and into the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained there many days.

carry corn.

Genesis 42:1,2,26 And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless? . . .

Genesis 41:56 And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph opened all the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed them also.

Genesis 43:1,2 In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land. . . .

Genesis 45:23 Sending to his father as much money and raiment; adding besides, ten he-asses, to carry off all the riches of Egypt, and as many she-asses, carrying wheat and bread for the journey.

Context
Joseph's Brothers Sent to Egypt
18And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God. 19If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.20And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.…
Cross References
Genesis 42:11
We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

Genesis 42:18
And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.

Genesis 42:20
And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.

Genesis 42:33
And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable men: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary provision for your houses, and go your ways,

Genesis 42:18
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