15 Hereby ye shall be proved: [a]by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not go hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

16 Send one of you which may fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies.

17 So he put them in ward three days.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 42:15 The Egyptians which were idolaters, used to swear by their king’s life: but God forbiddeth to swear by any but him: yet Joseph dwelling among the wicked smelleth of their corruptions.

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