31 But we said to him, ‘We are (A)honest men; we are not spies. 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’ 33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘(B)By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your households, and go.

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