Glancing Through the Scriptures

 (KJV,)  GENESIS 42:15-21

Joseph's brethren visit:

(15)  Hereby ye shall be proved:  By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

(16)  Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you:  or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

(17)  And he put them altogether into ward three days.

(18)  And Joseph said unto them the third day,  This do and live;  for I fear God:

(19)  If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison:  go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses.

(20)  But bring your youngest brother unto me;  so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die.  And they did so.

(21)  And they said one to another.  We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear, therefore is this distress come upon us.

ADDENDUM

Joseph said to his brethren;  This do and live;  for I fear God.  Have you ever had an encounter that made you fear God?