Genesis 42:16

Attributed to Jörg Breu the Younger, Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, c. 1534–1547 · Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0Attributed to Jörg Breu the Younger, Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, c. 1534–1547, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Genesis 42:16 (WEB)
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.”

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John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.25Conference XVII
“…hither: but ye shall be kept here until your words are made manifest whether ye speak the truth or no: but if not, by the life of Pharaoh, ye are spies.”” — editor's note: Gen. xlii. 9, 16.
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