Genesis 42:16-19
New International Version
16 Send one of your number to get your brother;(A) the rest of you will be kept in prison,(B) so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth.(C) If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!(D)” 17 And he put them all in custody(E) for three days.
18 On the third day, Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:(F) 19 If you are honest men,(G) let one of your brothers stay here in prison,(H) while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.(I)
Genesis 42:16-19
King James Version
16 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.
17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
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