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Genesis 42:16

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Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

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  1. Genesis 42:14

    And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

  2. Genesis 42:15

    Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

  3. Genesis 42:17

    And he put them all together into ward three days.

  4. Genesis 42:18

    And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.