“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 42 contains 38 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.