◄ Genesis 42:18 ►
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Good News Translation
On the third day Joseph said to them, "I am a God-fearing man, and I will spare your lives on one condition.

New Revised Standard Version
On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:

Contemporary English Version
before saying to them: Since I respect God, I'll give you a chance to save your lives.

New American Bible
On the third day Joseph said to them: “Do this, and you shall live; for I am a God-fearing man.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.

I fear God.

Genesis 20:11 Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:

Leviticus 25:43 Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.

Nehemiah 5:9,15 And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the Gentiles our enemies? . . .

Luke 18:2,4 Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God nor regarded man. . . .

Context
Joseph's Brothers Sent to Egypt
…17So he put them in prison three days. 18And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.19If 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.…
Cross References
Genesis 39:9
Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God?

Genesis 42:19
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.

Exodus 18:21
And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,

Leviticus 25:43
Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.

Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

Genesis 42:17
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