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Genesis Chapter 42 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 42:17

And he put them all together into ward three days.
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BBE Genesis 42:17

So he put them in prison for three days.
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DARBY Genesis 42:17

And he put them in custody three days.
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KJV Genesis 42:17

And he put them all together into ward three days.
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WBT Genesis 42:17

And he put them all together into custody three days.
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WEB Genesis 42:17

He put them all together into custody three days.
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YLT Genesis 42:17

and he removeth them unto charge three days.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - And he put them all together into ward (literally, and he assembled them into prison) three days. Ostensibly in consequence of their unwillingness to agree to his proposal, but in reality to give them an experience of the suffering which they had inflicted on him, their brother, and so to awaken in their hearts a feeling of repentance. Yet the clemency of Joseph appears in this, that whereas he had lain three long years in prison as the result of their inhumanity towards him, he only inflicts on them a confinement of three days.

Ellicott's Commentary