Genesis 42:31-33

Revised Geneva Translation

³¹ “And we said to him, ‘We are honest men, and are not spies.

³² ‘We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’

³³ “Then the lord of the country said to us, ‘By this I shall know if you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers with me and take food for the famine of your houses and depart;