Genesis 42:15
Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not goe hence, except your yongest brother come hither.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
14Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.
Cross References
Genesis 42:7And when Ioseph sawe his brethren, hee knewe them, and made himselfe straunge toward them, and spake to them roughly, and saide vnto them, Whence come yee? Who answered, Out of the land of Canaan, to bye vitaile.
Genesis 42:16Send one of you which may fet your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proued, whether there bee trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies.
Genesis 42:30The man, who is Lord of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.
Genesis 43:3And Iudah answered him, saying, The man charged vs by an othe, saying, Neuer see my face, except your brother be with you.
Genesis 44:20And we answered my Lord, We haue a father that is olde, and a young childe, which he begate in his age: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loueth him.
Genesis 44:23Then saydest thou vnto thy seruants, Except your yonger brother come downe with you, looke in my face no more.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:8-21
Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1706.) 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy… Read the whole commentary →