Verse 19

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 40:3 : 3 so he imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard in the same facility where Joseph was confined.
• Gen 41:56 : 56 While the famine was over all the earth, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.
• Gen 42:1-2 : 1 Joseph’s Brothers in Egypt When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons,“Why are you looking at each other?” 2 He then said,“Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die.”
• Gen 42:26 : 26 So they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.
• Gen 43:1-2 : 1 The Second Journey to Egypt Now the famine was severe in the land. 2 When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them,“Return, buy us a little more food.”
• Gen 45:23 : 23 To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father’s journey.
• Isa 42:7 : 7 to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.
• Isa 42:22 : 22 But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says,“Bring that back!”
• Jer 37:15 : 15 The officials were very angry at Jeremiah. They had him flogged and put in prison in the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary, which they had converted into a place for confining prisoners.