Catholic Public Domain Version
"If you are peaceful, let one of your brothers be bound in prison. Then you may go away and carry the grain that you have bought to your houses. "
— Genesis 42:19, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“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;”
“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:”
Send one of you and bring him. But you will be in chains, until what you have said is proven to be either true or false. Otherwise, by the health of Pharaoh, you are scouts.”
Therefore, he delivered them into custody for three days.
Then, on the third day, he brought them out of prison, and he said: “Do as I have said, and you will live. For I fear God.
If you are peaceful, let one of your brothers be bound in prison. Then you may go away and carry the grain that you have bought to your houses.
And bring your youngest brother to me, so that I may be able to test your words, and you may not die.” They did as he had said,
and they spoke to one another: “We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he begged us and we would not listen. For that reason, this tribulation has come upon us.”
And Reuben, one of them, said: “Did not I say to you, ‘Do not sin against the boy,’ and you would not listen to me? See, his blood is exacted.”