Genesis 42:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!””
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“Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not--Pharaoh liveth! surely ye <FI>are<Fi> spies;'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 42:16 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 42:11We are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.”
- Genesis 42:30“The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.
- Joshua 2:1Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
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