Genesis 42:17 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Genesis 42:17

15 In this manner you shall be tested: ^aBy the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

16 Send one of you, and let him bring your brother; and you shall be¹ kept in prison, that your words may be tested to see whether there is any truth in you; or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies!”

17 So he¹ put them all together in prison ^athree days.

18 Then Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this and live, ^afor I fear God:

19 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.

20 And bring your young^aest brother to me; so your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they did so.

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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 [Genesis 42:21-22].

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