"So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy's life,"
NIV
Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life and his soul knit with the lad's soul
AMP
Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
KJV
They tied the rings of the breastpiece to the rings of the ephod with blue cord, connecting it to the waistband so that the breastpiece would not swing out from the ephod – as the LORD commanded Moses.
NIV
They bound the breastplate by its rings to those of the ephod with a blue lace, that it might lie upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses.
AMP
And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
KJV
"But bring your youngest brother to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land."
NIV
Bring your youngest brother to me; then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. And I will deliver to you your brother [whom I have kept bound in prison], and you may do business in the land.
AMP
And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
KJV
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.
NIV
If you are true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison, but [the rest of] you go and carry grain for those weakened with hunger in your households.
AMP
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:
KJV