Genesis 42:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁶ Let one of you go and bring your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison, in order that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you; or else, as Pharaoh lives, surely you are spies.’ ¹⁷ And he put them all together in prison for three days.

¹⁸ On the third day Joseph said to them, ‘Do this and you will live, for I fear God: