Bible in Basic English
"If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;"
— Genesis 42:19, Bible in Basic English
“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:”
“if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses: ”
“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.”
“If 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.”
“If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.”
Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.
So he put them in prison for three days.
And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:
If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;
And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.
And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.
And Reuben said to them, Did I not say to you, Do the child no wrong? but you gave no attention; so now, punishment has come on us for his blood.