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Genesis 42:17

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And he put them all together into ward three days.

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  1. 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.

  2. Genesis 42:16

    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.

  3. Genesis 42:18

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

  4. Genesis 42:19

    If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

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