²³ But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.

³ If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food:

⁵ And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?

¹⁵ But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.

¹⁶ Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.

¹⁷ So he put them in prison for three days.

¹⁸ And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

¹⁹ If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

²⁰ And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.