“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.”
Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If not, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies! The imprisonment is the enforcement of the test — one goes, nine stay, the truth will be verified. The application: the test that has real consequences — imprisonment — is the test that produces genuine rather than merely verbal compliance.
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