Genesis 42:19

Genesis 42:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
• New International Version (NIV)If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.
• English Standard Version (ESV)if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households,
• New King James Version (NKJV)If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined to your prison house; but you, go and carry grain for the famine of your houses.

Context of Genesis 42:19

17Then Joseph put them all in prison for three days. 18Now Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and [you may] live, for I fear God: if you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in your [place here in] prison; but as for the rest of you, go, carry grain for the famine in your households, 20but bring your youngest brother to me, so your words will be verified and you will not die.” And they did so. 21And they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty regarding our brother [Joseph], because we saw the distress and anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us [to let him go], yet we would not listen [to his cry]; so this distress and anguish has come on us.”

Genesis 42:19 word by word

אִם־כֵּנִ֣ים אַתֶּ֔ם אֲחִיכֶ֣ם אֶחָ֔ד יֵאָסֵ֖ר בְּבֵ֣ית מִשְׁמַרְכֶ֑ם וְאַתֶּם֙ לְכ֣וּ הָבִ֔יאוּ שֶׁ֖בֶר רַעֲב֥וֹן בָּתֵּיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• trueכֵּןkên · rightH3651
• let oneאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259
• of your brethrenאָח'âch · brother: male-siblingH251
• be boundאָסַר'âsar · to bindH631
• in the houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• of your prisonמִשְׁמָרmishmâr · custodyH4929
• goיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• ye, carryבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): bringH935
• cornשֶׁ֫בֶרsheber · grainH7668
• for the famineרְעָבוֹןre‛âbôn · famineH7459
• of your housesבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: householdH1004

Cross-references for Genesis 42:19

• Genesis 40:3He put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.
• Isaiah 42:7To open the eyes of the blind, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who sit in darkness from the prison.
• Jeremiah 37:15The princes were enraged with Jeremiah and beat him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe—for they had made that the prison.
• Genesis 42:1Now when Jacob (Israel) learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another [in bewilderment and not taking action]?”
• Genesis 41:56When the famine was spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold [surplus grain] to the Egyptians; and the famine grew [extremely] severe in the land of Egypt.
• Genesis 43:1Now the famine was very severe in the land [of Canaan].
• Genesis 45:23To his father he sent the following: ten male donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father [to supply all who were with him] on the journey.

Commentaries on Genesis 42:19

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-38Verses 1-38 - Joseph and Ten of His Brethren 1. שׁבר sheber “fragment, crumb, hence, grain.” בר bar “pure,” “winnowed,” hence, “corn” (grain). 6. שׁליט shallı̂yṭ “ruler, governor, hence,” Sultan. Not elsewhere found in the Pentateuch. 25. כלי kelı̂y “vessel,” here any portable article in which grain may be conveyed. שׂק śaq “sack,” the very word which remains in our language to this day. אמתחת 'amtachath “bag.” Twenty years, the period of Joseph‘s long…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-20Verses 7-20 Joseph was hard upon his brethren, not from a spirit of revenge, but to bring them to repentance. Not seeing his brother Benjamin, he suspected that they had made away with him, and he gave them occasion to speak of their father and brother. God, in his providence, sometimes seems harsh with those he loves, and speaks roughly to those for whom yet he has great mercy in store. Joseph settled at last, that one of them should be left, and the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18-20Rather than keep all but one, Joseph would release all but one to take grain home to their starving families.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 17-2417-24. put them ... into ward three days--Their confinement had been designed to bring them to salutary reflection. And this object was attained, for they looked upon the retributive justice of God as now pursuing them in that foreign land. The drift of their conversation is one of the most striking instances on record of the power of conscience [Ge 42:21, 22].Read the comment

Topics related to Genesis 42:19

• Commerce
• Dissembling
• Prison

In the dictionaries

• Bereave
• Corn
• Dungeon
• Espy
• Famine
• Fear
• Joseph
• Lade
• Lord
• Nakedness

Commentaries on Genesis 42

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings