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Genesis 42:20
Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.
Genesis 42:20 · World English Bible
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Genesis 42:20 in other translations
But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented.
Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.
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In context
17 He put them all together into custody for three days.
18 Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so.
21 They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
22 Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
23 They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
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