MANNAFEST

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:

KJV

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ASV

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:

WEB

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.

YLT

if ye are right men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your ward, and ye, go, carry in corn for the famine of your houses,

DBT

If ye are honest, let one of your brethren remain bound in the house of your prison, but go ye, carry grain for the hunger of your households;

About this book

Old Testament

GenesisThe book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author
Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date
Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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