Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
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."
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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!”
17 With that, he put them in prison for three days.
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And he put them all in custody for three days.
18 On the third day Joseph said to them, "I am a God-fearing man, and I will spare your lives on one condition.
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On the third day, Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
19 To prove that you are honest, one of you will stay in the prison where you have been kept; the rest of you may go and take back to your starving families the grain that you have bought.
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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.
20 Then you must bring your youngest brother to me. This will prove that you have been telling the truth, and I will not put you to death." They agreed to this
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But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die.” This they proceeded to do.
21 and said to one another, "Yes, now we are suffering the consequences of what we did to our brother; we saw the great trouble he was in when he begged for help, but we would not listen. That is why we are in this trouble now."
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They said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that’s why this distress has come on us.”
22 Reuben said, "I told you not to harm the boy, but you wouldn't listen. And now we are being paid back for his death."
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Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn’t listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.”
23 Joseph understood what they said, but they did not know it, because they had been speaking to him through an interpreter.
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They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter.
24 Joseph left them and began to cry. When he was able to speak again, he came back, picked out Simeon, and had him tied up in front of them.
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He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.
25 Joseph gave orders to fill his brothers' packs with grain, to put each man's money back in his sack, and to give them food for the trip. This was done.
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Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to put each man’s silver back in his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. After this was done for them,
26 The brothers loaded their donkeys with the grain they had bought, and then they left.
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they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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