Genesis 42:15
Good News Translation
This is how you will be tested: I swear by the name of the king that you will never leave unless your youngest brother comes here.

New Revised Standard Version
Here is how you shall be tested: as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here!

Contemporary English Version
and I'm going to find out the truth. I swear by the life of the king that you won't leave this place until your youngest brother comes here.

New American Bible
This is how you shall be tested: I swear by the life of Pharaoh that you shall not leave here unless your youngest brother comes here.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.

By the life.

Genesis 42:7,12,16,30 And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life. . . .

Deuteronomy 6:13 Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name.

1 Samuel 1:26 And Anna said: I beseech thee, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord: I am that woman, who stood before thee here praying to the Lord.

1 Samuel 17:55 Now at the time that Saul saw David going out against the Philistines, he said to Abner, the captain of the army: Of what family is this young man descended, Abner? And Abner said: As thy soul liveth, O king, I know not.

1 Samuel 20:3 And he swore again to David. And David said: Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there is but one step (as I may say) between me and death.

Jeremiah 5:2,7 And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely. . . .

Matthew 5:33-37 Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord. . . .

Matthew 23:16-22 Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor. . . .

James 5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be: Yea, Yea: No, No: that you fall not under judgment.

except.

Genesis 42:20,34 And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said. . . .

Genesis 43:3 Juda answered: The man declared unto us with the attestation of an oath, saying: You shall not see my face, unless you bring your youngest brother with you.

Genesis 44:20-34 And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly. . . .

Context
Joseph's Brothers Sent to Egypt
14He saith, This is it that I said: You are spies. 15I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao, you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.16Send one of you to fetch him: and you shall be in prison, till what you have said be proved, whether it be true or false: or else by the health of Pharao you are spies.…
Cross References
Genesis 42:14
He saith, This is it that I said: You are spies.

Genesis 44:21
And thou saidst to thy servants: Bring him hither to me, and I will set my eyes on him.

1 Samuel 17:55
Now at the time that Saul saw David going out against the Philistines, he said to Abner, the captain of the army: Of what family is this young man descended, Abner? And Abner said: As thy soul liveth, O king, I know not.

Genesis 42:14
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