Cross references

Genesis 42:19

If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

Genesis 42:19 BSB

Genesis 42:19 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 0 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 40:3 (2 votes) and Genesis 41:56 (2 votes). 6 other verses point back to it. It links with 3 other books, from Genesis 40 to Acts 7.

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  1. and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.

  2. When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

  3. When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?” “Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

  4. and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.

  5. Now the famine was still severe in the land. So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

  6. And he sent to his father the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his father’s journey.

  7. to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

  8. But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

  9. The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.

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