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Genesis 42:16
Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.

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Genesis 42:15
But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.

Genesis 43:3
And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.

Genesis 44:23
But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.

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Joshua 2:1
Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men from Shittim secretly, with the purpose of searching out the land, and Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a loose woman of the town, named Rahab, where they took their rest for the night.

Judges 1:24
And the watchers saw a man coming out of the town, and said to him, If you will make clear to us the way into the town, we will be kind to you.

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2 Samuel 10:3
But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father by sending comforters to you? has he not sent his servants to go through the town and make secret observation of it, and overcome it?

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Matthew 5:34
But I say to you, Take no oaths at all: not by the heaven, because it is the seat of God;

James 5:12
But most of all, my brothers, do not take oaths, not by the heaven, or by the earth, or by any other thing: but let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No: so that you may not be judged.

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