Genesis 42:14-16

42:14 But Joseph told them, “It is just as I said to you: ¹  You are spies! 42:15 You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, ²  you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here. 42:16 One of you must go and get ³  your brother, while ⁴  the rest of you remain in prison. ⁵  In this way your words may be tested to see if ⁶  you are telling the truth. ⁷  If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

[42:14]  ¹ tn Heb “to you, saying.”

[42:15]  ² tn Heb “[By] the life of Pharaoh.”

[42:16]  ³ tn Heb “send from you one and let him take.” After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose.

[42:16]  ⁴ tn The disjunctive clause is here circumstantial-temporal.

[42:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “bound.”

[42:16]  ⁶ tn The words “to see” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[42:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “the truth [is] with you.”