10. But they said to him, No, my lord, but your servants have come [only] to buy food.
11. We are all one man's sons; we are true men; your servants are not spies.
12. And he said to them, No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land.
13. But they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest is today with our father, and one is not.
14. And Joseph said to them, It is as I said to you, You are spies.
15. You shall be proved by this test: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go away from here unless your youngest brother comes here.
16. Send one of you and let him bring your brother, and you will be kept in prison, that your words may be proved whether there is any truth in you; or else by the life of Pharaoh you certainly are spies.
17. Then he put them all in custody for three days.
18. And Joseph said to them on the third day, Do this and live! I reverence and fear God.
19. If you are true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison, but [the rest of] you go and carry grain for those weakened with hunger in your households.
20. But bring your youngest brother to me, so your words will be verified and you shall live. And they did so.
21. And they said one to another, We are truly guilty about our brother, for we saw the distress and anguish of his soul when he begged us [to let him go], and we would not hear. So this distress and difficulty has come upon us.