en_tn/gen/42/18.md

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)