Genesis 42:16

One of you must go and get him. The rest of you will be kept under guard until the truth of what you say can be tested. Otherwise, as sure as the king lives, you are spies.

Genesis 42:11

We are all brothers. We are not spies. We are honest men.

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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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Kept in prison

Genesis 42:19
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in prison. Concerning the rest of you, carry grain for the famine of your households,

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Genesis 44:2
Also put my silver cup in the sack of the youngest brother. The servant did as he was told.