Genesis 42:17 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

And he put them all together into ward three days.

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And he put them all in prison for three days.

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Joseph imprisoned his brothers for three days as part of his test to see if they had changed.

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This occurs when Joseph's ten brothers came to Egypt to buy grain during a severe famine. Joseph, now a powerful Egyptian official, recognized his brothers but they didn't recognize him. He was testing them to see if they were still the same men who had sold him into slavery years earlier.

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