Genesis 42:15

42:15 You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, ¹  you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Genesis 42:19-20

42:19 If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison ²  while the rest of you go ³  and take grain back for your hungry families. ⁴  42:20 But you must bring ⁵  your youngest brother to me. Then ⁶  your words will be verified ⁷  and you will not die.” They did as he said. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “[By] the life of Pharaoh.”

² tn Heb “bound in the house of your prison.”

³ tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal.

⁴ tn Heb “[for] the hunger of your households.”

⁵ tn The imperfect here has an injunctive force.

⁶ tn After the injunctive imperfect, this imperfect with vav indicates purpose or result.

⁷ tn The Niphal form of the verb has the sense of “to be faithful; to be sure; to be reliable.” Joseph will test his brothers to see if their words are true.

⁸ tn Heb “and they did so.”