Genesis 42:16-18

New King James Version

¹⁶ Send one of you, and let him bring your brother; and you shall be ^[a]kept in prison, that your words may be tested to see whether there is any truth in you; or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies!” ¹⁷ So he ^[b]put them all together in prison ^(A)three days.

¹⁸ Then Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this and live, ^(B)for I fear God: