Genesis 42:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

‘And he put them all together into custody for three days.'

This may well have been in the same prison where he himself had been held. Certainly it would give them a taste of the terror he had known. He felt that it was something that they should know, and they were not immature young men like he had been.

Genesis 42:17

17 And he put them all together into ward three days.