14 “It’s just as I told you,” Joseph said to them. “You’re spies!
15 This is how you’ll be tested: I solemnly swear, as surely as Pharaoh lives, that you won’t leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
16 One of you must be sent to get your brother while the rest of you stay in prison. We’ll see if you’re telling the truth. If not, I solemnly swear, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
17 Then he put them in jail for three days.
18 On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this, and you will live. I, too, fear God.
19 If you are honest men, you will let one of your brothers stay here in prison. The rest of you will go and take grain back to your starving families.
20 But you must bring me your youngest brother. This will show that you’ve been telling the truth. Then you won’t die.” So they agreed.