King James Version (KJV)
Genesis 42:18
“And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; [for] I fear God:”
Verse in context — Genesis 42
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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.
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And he put them all together into ward three days.
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And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; [for] I fear God:
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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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But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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