¹⁹ 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;

³ And he put them in prison under the care of the captain of the army, in the same prison where Joseph himself was shut up.

⁵⁶ And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

¹ Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another?

² And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

²⁶ Then they put the bags of grain on their asses and went away.

¹ And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

² And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.

²³ And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey.

⁷ To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

²² But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.

¹⁵ And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.