If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.’

“Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.

For the Lord will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the Lord will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.