Genesis 42:15

Joseph Sends Nine Of His Brothers Back To Canaan

¹⁴ Joseph said unto them, "That is it that I said unto you, that ye are surely spies. ¹⁵ Hereby ye shall be proved. For by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not go hence, until your youngest brother be come hither. ¹⁶ Send therefore one of you and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be in prison in the mean season. And thereby shall your words be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh, ye are but spies."

Pharaoh

1 Samuel 17:55

When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner the captain of his host, "Abner, whose son is this lad?" And Abner answered, "As truly as thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell."

Genesis 42:7

When Joseph saw his brethren, he knew them: But made strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them saying, "Whence come ye?" And they said, "Out of the land of Canaan, to buy victuals."

Genesis 42:12

And he said unto them, "Nay, verily, but even to see where the land is weak is your coming."

Genesis 42:16

Send therefore one of you and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be in prison in the mean season. And thereby shall your words be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh, ye are but spies."

Genesis 42:20

and bring your youngest brother unto me: that your words may be believed, and that ye die not." And they did so.

Genesis 42:30

"The lord of the land spake roughly to us, and took us for spies to search the country.

Genesis 42:34

and bring your youngest brother unto me; And thereby shall I know that ye are no spies, but mean truly: So will I deliver you your brother again, and ye shall occupy in the land.'"

Genesis 43:3

Then said Judah unto him, "The man did testify unto us saying, 'Look that ye see not my face except your brother be with you.'

Genesis 44:20-34

And we answered my lord, 'We have a father that is old, and a young lad which he begat in his age: and the brother of the said lad is dead, and he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loveth him.'

Deuteronomy 6:13

But fear the LORD thy God and serve him, and swear by his name,

1 Samuel 1:26

and then she said, "Oh my lord, as truly as thy soul liveth my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 20:3

And David sware again and said, "Thy father knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes and therefore he thinketh, 'Jonathan shall not know it, lest he be sorry.' For in very deed even as truly as the LORD liveth, and as truly as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death."

Jeremiah 5:2

For though they can say, "The LORD liveth," yet do they swear to deceive.

Jeremiah 5:7

"Should I then, for all this, have mercy upon thee? Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. And albeit they were bound to me in marriage, yet they fell to adultery, and hunted harlots' houses.

Matthew 5:33-37

"Again, ye have heard how it was said to them of old time, 'Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform thine oath to God':

Matthew 23:16-22

Woe be unto you, blind guides, for ye which say, 'Whosoever swear by the temple, it is nothing: but whosoever swear by the gold of the temple, he offendeth.'

James 5:12

But above all things, my brethren, swear not: neither by heaven, neither by earth, neither by any other oath. Let your yea be "yea," and your nay, "nay," lest ye fall into hypocrisy.