New English Translation
Genesis 42:17
17He imprisoned them all for three days.
Genesis 42:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And he put them all together into ward three days.
- New International Version (NIV)And he put them all in custody for three days.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And he put them all together in custody for three days.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So he put them all together in prison three days.
Context of Genesis 42:17
15You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here. 16One of you must go and get your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison. In this way your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!” He imprisoned them all for three days. 18On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God. 19If 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.
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וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף אֹתָ֛ם אֶל־מִשְׁמָ֖ר שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת יָמִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Genesis 42:17
- Isaiah 24:22They will be imprisoned in a pit, locked up in a prison, and after staying there for a long time, they will be punished.
- Acts 5:18They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail.
- Genesis 40:4The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be their attendant, and he served them. They spent some time in custody.
- Genesis 41:10Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards – me and the chief baker.
- Leviticus 24:12So they placed him in custody until they were able to make a clear legal decision for themselves based on words from the mouth of the Lord.
- Psalms 119:65You are good to your servant, O Lord, just as you promised.
- Acts 4:3So they seized them and put them in jail until the next day (for it was already evening).
- Hebrews 12:10For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.
Commentaries on Genesis 42:17
- 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. 15-17Joseph put his brothers in prison for three days. He did this to see if they felt guilt for what they had done in the past (42:21–23). The brothers had similarly thrown Joseph into a cistern-prison while they decided what to do with him (37:24).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
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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
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