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Genesis 42:18

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16 Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

17 So Joseph imprisoned them for three days,

and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:

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.

20 Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented.

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BSB
and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
KJV
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
WEB
Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
ASV
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live: for I fear God:
DARBY
And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, that ye may live: I fear God.
BLB
And Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and you will live; I fear God:
ÅB
Men den tredje dag sa Josef til dem: Gjør som jeg nå sier, så skal dere leve! Jeg frykter Gud.
OTB
På den tredje dagen talte Josef til dem og sa: "Gjør dette, så skal dere leve, for jeg har ærefrykt for Gud:
B1930
Men den tredje dag sa Josef til dem: Gjør som jeg nu sier, så skal I leve! Jeg frykter Gud.

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Cross references

  • Leviticus 25:43

    You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.

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  • Nehemiah 5:15

    The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.

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  • Genesis 20:11

    Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’

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  • Luke 18:2

    “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.

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  • Luke 18:4

    For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,

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  • Nehemiah 5:9

    So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

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