Genesis 42:16

42:16 One of you must go and get ¹  your brother, while ²  the rest of you remain in prison. ³  In this way your words may be tested to see if ⁴  you are telling the truth. ⁵  If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

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¹ tn Heb “send from you one and let him take.” After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose.

² tn The disjunctive clause is here circumstantial-temporal.

³ tn Heb “bound.”

⁴ tn The words “to see” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Heb “the truth [is] with you.”