Genesis 42:13-17
Genesis 42:13
But they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers in all, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no longer alive.”
Genesis 42:14
Yet Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you, you are spies;
Genesis 42:15
by this you will be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here!
Genesis 42:16
Send one of you and have him get your brother, while you remain confined, so that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. But if not, by the life of Pharaoh, you are certainly spies!”
Genesis 42:17
So he put them all together in prison for three days.