Genesis 42:16; Genesis 42:19; Genesis 42:31; Genesis 42:34

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Genesis 42:16

16 Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
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Genesis 42:19

19 If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.
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Genesis 42:31

31 But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.
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Genesis 42:34

34 But bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.’ ”
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