else by the life of Pharaoh] He sweares againe by the life of Pharaoh; it is like that he had contracted a custome (by his ill company) so to sweare; which sheweth how dangerous it is to be familiarly conversant with the wicked. ye are spies] Though he sweare he doth not forsweare, for he calls them spies but conditionally, if they brought not their younger brother to him; which condition they accepted of, and so were to be taken as spies if they did not bring him.