Genesis 42:15

Joseph Sends Nine Of His Brothers Back To Canaan

¹⁴ And Joseph saith unto them, 'This is that which I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye are spies, ¹⁵ by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this -- except by your young brother coming hither; ¹⁶ send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not -- Pharaoh liveth! surely ye are spies;'

Pharaoh

1 Samuel 17:55

And when Saul seeth David going out to meet the Philistine, he hath said unto Abner, head of the host, 'Whose son is this -- the youth, Abner?' and Abner saith, 'Thy soul liveth, O king, I have not known.'

Genesis 42:7

And Joseph seeth his brethren, and discerneth them, and maketh himself strange unto them, and speaketh with them sharp things, and saith unto them, 'From whence have ye come?' and they say, 'From the land of Canaan -- to buy food.'

Genesis 42:12

and he saith unto them, 'No, but the nakedness of the land ye have come to see;'

Genesis 42:16

send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not -- Pharaoh liveth! surely ye are spies;'

Genesis 42:20

and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;' and they do so.

Genesis 42:30

'The man, the lord of the land, hath spoken with us sharp things, and maketh us as spies of the land;

Genesis 42:34

and bring your young brother unto me, and I know that ye are not spies, but ye are right men; your brother I give to you, and ye trade with the land.'

Genesis 43:3

And Judah speaketh unto him, saying, 'The man protesting protested to us, saying, Ye do not see my face without your brother being with you;

Genesis 44:20-34

and we say unto my lord, We have a father, an aged one, and a child of old age, a little one; and his brother died, and he is left alone of his mother, and his father hath loved him.

Deuteronomy 6:13

Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, and Him thou dost serve, and by His name thou dost swear;

1 Samuel 1:26

and she saith, 'O, my lord, thy soul liveth! my lord, I am the woman who stood with thee in this place, to pray unto Jehovah;

1 Samuel 20:3

And David sweareth again, and saith, 'Thy father hath certainly known that I have found grace in thine eyes, and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; and yet, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, but -- as a step between me and death.'

Jeremiah 5:2

And if they say, 'Jehovah liveth,' Surely to a falsehood they swear.

Jeremiah 5:7

For this I am not propitious to thee, Thy sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by that which is not god, I satisfy them, and they commit adultery, And at the house of a harlot They gather themselves together.

Matthew 5:33-37

'Again, ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not swear falsely, but thou shalt pay to the Lord thine oaths;

Matthew 23:16-22

Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary -- is debtor!

James 5:12

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.