World English Bible
Genesis 42:15
“By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.”
Verse in context — Genesis 42
They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.
Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!
By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.
He put them all together into custody for three days.
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