Gen 42:16 | NETfull | STEP | One of you must go and get your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison. In this way your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

Genesis 42:16

16 One of you must go and get ^{▼▼ Heb “send from you one and let him take.” After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose.} your brother, while ^{▼▼ The disjunctive clause is here circumstantial-temporal.} the rest of you remain in prison. ^{▼▼ Heb “bound.”} In this way your words may be tested to see if ^{▼▼ The words “to see” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.} you are telling the truth. ^{▼▼ Heb “the truth [is] with you.”} If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”