Genesis 42:17
New International Version
And he put them all in custody for three days.

New Living Translation
So Joseph put them all in prison for three days.

English Standard Version
And he put them all together in custody for three days.

Berean Standard Bible
So Joseph imprisoned them for three days,

King James Bible
And he put them all together into ward three days.

New King James Version
So he put them all together in prison three days.

New American Standard Bible
So he put them all together in prison for three days.

NASB 1995
So he put them all together in prison for three days.

NASB 1977
So he put them all together in prison for three days.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then he put them all together in prison for three days.

Amplified Bible
Then Joseph put them all in prison for three days.

Christian Standard Bible
So Joseph imprisoned them together for three days.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Joseph imprisoned them together for three days.

American Standard Version
And he put them all together into ward three days.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he cast them into the prison house three days.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he put them in prison three days.

Contemporary English Version
Joseph kept them all under guard for three days,

Douay-Rheims Bible
So he put them in prison three days.

English Revised Version
And he put them all together into ward three days.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then he put them in jail for three days.

Good News Translation
With that, he put them in prison for three days.

International Standard Version
Then Joseph locked them all together in prison for three days.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he put them all together into ward three days.

Literal Standard Version
and he gathers them into confinement [for] three days.

Majority Standard Bible
So Joseph imprisoned them for three days,

New American Bible
With that, he locked them up in the guardhouse for three days.

NET Bible
He imprisoned them all for three days.

New Revised Standard Version
And he put them all together in prison for three days.

New Heart English Bible
So he put all of them together in prison for three days.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he put them all together into custody three days.

World English Bible
He put them all together into custody for three days.

Young's Literal Translation
and he removeth them unto charge three days.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Joseph's Brothers Sent to Egypt
16Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!” 17So Joseph imprisoned them for three days, 18and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:…

Cross References
Genesis 40:4
The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. After they had been in custody for some time,

Genesis 40:7
So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master's house, "Why are your faces so downcast today?"


Treasury of Scripture

And he put them all together into ward three days.

put.

Isaiah 24:22
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

Acts 5:18
And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

ward.

Genesis 40:4,7
And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward…

Genesis 41:10
Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:

Leviticus 24:12
And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.

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Genesis 42
1. Jacob sends his ten sons to buy grain in Egypt.
16. They are imprisoned by Joseph as spies.
18. They are set at liberty, on condition to bring Benjamin.
21. They have remorse for Joseph.
24. Simeon is kept for a pledge.
25. They return with grain, and their money.
29. Their relation to Jacob.
36. Jacob refuses to send Benjamin.














Verse 17. - And he put them all together into ward (literally, and he assembled them into prison) three days. Ostensibly in consequence of their unwillingness to agree to his proposal, but in reality to give them an experience of the suffering which they had inflicted on him, their brother, and so to awaken in their hearts a feeling of repentance. Yet the clemency of Joseph appears in this, that whereas he had lain three long years in prison as the result of their inhumanity towards him, he only inflicts on them a confinement of three days.

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Hebrew
So Joseph imprisoned them
וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף (way·ye·’ĕ·sōp̄)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 622: To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove

for three
שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת (šə·lō·šeṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice

days,
יָמִֽים׃ (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day


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