Verse 19

If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 40:3 : 3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
  • Gen 41:56 : 56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 42:1-2 : 1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" 2 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
  • Gen 42:26 : 26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
  • Gen 43:1-2 : 1 The famine was severe in the land. 2 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
  • Gen 45:23 : 23 He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
  • Isa 42:7 : 7 to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
  • Isa 42:22 : 22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'
  • Jer 37:15 : 15 The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.