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## Do this and live ##
"If you will do what I say, I will let you live"
## let one of your brothers be confined in this prison ##
Alternate translation: "leave one of your brothers here in prison"
## but you go ##
"but the rest of you go"
## carry grain for the famine of your houses ##
Alternate translation: "carry grain home to help your family during this famine"
## so your words will be verified ##
Alternate translation: "so I may know what you say is true." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])