16 Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!” 17 So Joseph imprisoned them for three days, 18 and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
Genesis 42:16–18
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Genesis 42:32–34
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