1)

Why did Yosef incarcerate them for three days before releasing them?

1.

Ramban: (a) To frighten them; (b) to convince them that he feared Hashem. 1


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Ramban: Refer also to 42:18:1:1. Moreover, they would never have agreed to leave one of them [alone in Egypt] unless it was to save them all.

QUESTIONS ON RASHI

2)

Rashi writes: "Mishmar - [i.e.] jail." But perhaps it only means being placed under [surveillance by] guards (Shomrim)?

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Gur Aryeh: The verse says he "assembled them," i.e., into a specific place where people are held.

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