Genesis 42:31-33

Living Bible

³¹ ‘No, no,’ we said, ‘we are honest men, not spies. ³² We are twelve brothers, sons of one father; one is dead, and the youngest is with our father in the land of Canaan.’ ³³ Then the man told us, ‘This is the way I will find out if you are what you claim to be. Leave one of your brothers here with me and take grain for your families and go on home,