Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
This is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
New American Standard Bible
by this you will be tested:
King James Version
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
International Standard Version
So here's how we'll test you. You can bet the life of Pharaoh that you're not leaving here until your youngest brother comes here!
A Conservative Version
By this ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here.
American Standard Version
hereby ye shall be proved: by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
Amplified
In this way you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here!
Bible in Basic English
But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.
Darby Translation
By this ye shall be put to the proof: as Pharaoh lives, ye shall not go forth hence, unless your youngest brother come hither!
Julia Smith Translation
In this ye shall be proved; Pharaoh living, if ye shall go forth from here except in the coming of your brother, the little one hither.
King James 2000
Hereby you shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh you shall not go forth from here, except your youngest brother come here.
Lexham Expanded Bible
By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh you will not go out from here unless your youngest brother comes here.
Modern King James verseion
By this you shall be proved; as Pharaoh lives you shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hereby ye shall be proved. For by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not go hence, until your youngest brother be come hither.
NET Bible
You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
New Heart English Bible
By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
The Emphasized Bible
Hereby, shall ye be proved, - By the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not go forth from hence, save only by the coming in of your youngest brother hither.
Webster
By this ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother shall come hither.
World English Bible
By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
Youngs Literal Translation
by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this -- except by your young brother coming hither;
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 42:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph Sends Nine Of His Brothers Back To Canaan
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Then Joseph said to them, “I have spoken:
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Cross References
1 Samuel 17:55
“My king, as surely as you live, I don’t know,” Abner replied.
Genesis 42:7
When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke harshly to them.
“Where do you come from?” he asked.
“From the land of Canaan to buy food,” they replied.
Genesis 42:12
“No,” he said to them. “You have come to see the weakness of the land.”
Genesis 42:16
Send one from among you to get your brother. The rest of you will be imprisoned so that your words can be tested to see if they are true. If they are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
Genesis 42:20
Bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be confirmed; then you won’t die.” And they consented to this.
Genesis 42:30
“The man who is the lord of the country spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.
Genesis 42:34
Bring back your youngest brother to me, and I will know that you are not spies but honest men. I will then give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the country.’”
Genesis 43:3
But Judah said to him, “The man specifically warned us: ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’
Genesis 44:20-34
and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age.
Deuteronomy 6:13
Fear Yahweh your God, worship Him, and take your oaths in His name.
1 Samuel 1:26
“Please, my lord,” she said, “as sure as you live,
1 Samuel 20:3
But David said, “Your father certainly knows that you have come to look favorably on me. He has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or else he will be grieved.’” David also swore, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
Jeremiah 5:2
they are swearing falsely.
Jeremiah 5:7
Your children have abandoned Me
and sworn by those who are not gods.
I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery;
they gashed themselves
Matthew 5:33-37
Matthew 23:16-22
James 5:12
Now above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath.