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Genesis 42:16

Genesis 42:16 is verse 16 of Genesis chapter 42, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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!”

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King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”

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Genesis 42:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!

15 And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

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:

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Hebrew words

שִׁלְח֨וּsend מִכֶּ֣םof <the> yourselves אֶחָד֮one וְיִקַּ֣חso he may fetch אֶת<obj.>אֲחִיכֶם֒brother your וְאַתֶּם֙and you הֵאָ֣סְר֔וּbe imprisoned וְיִבָּֽחֲנוּ֙so they may be tested דִּבְרֵיכֶ֔םwords your הַֽאֱמֶ֖ת¿ [is] truth אִתְּכֶ֑םwith you וְאִםand if לֹ֕אnot חֵ֣י[by] [the] life of פַרְעֹ֔הPharaoh כִּ֥יfor מְרַגְּלִ֖ים[are] spies אַתֶּֽםyou

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