Genesis 42:9–20

⁹And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.

¹⁰But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come to buy food.

¹¹We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

¹²And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.

¹³But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.

¹⁴He saith, This is it that I said: You are spies.

¹⁵I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.

¹⁶Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.

¹⁷So he put them in prison three days.

¹⁸And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.

¹⁹If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways, and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.

²⁰And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.