12. But he answered them: “Not so! It is the weak points of the land that you have come to see.”
13. “We your servants,” they said, “are twelve brothers, sons of a certain man in Canaan; but the youngest one is at present with our father, and the other one is no more.”
14. “It is just as I said,” Joseph persisted; “you are spies.
15. This is how you shall be tested: I swear by the life of Pharaoh that you shall not leave here unless your youngest brother comes here.
16. So send one of your number to get your brother, while the rest of you stay here under arrest. Thus will your words be tested for their truth; if they are untrue, as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
17. With that, he locked them up in the guardhouse for three days.
18. On the third day Joseph said to them: “Do this, and you shall live; for I am a God-fearing man.
19. If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in this prison, while the rest of you go and take home grain for your starving families.