Genesis 42:16

One of you must go and get your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison. In this way your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!"

Genesis 42:11

We are all the sons of one man; we are honest men! Your servants are not spies."

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Summary

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.

Kept in prison

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Bible References

Kept in prison

Genesis 42:19
If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

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Genesis 44:2
Then put my cup -- the silver cup -- in the mouth of the youngest one's sack, along with the money for his grain." He did as Joseph instructed.

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