Genesis 42:10
And they said to him, No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
In Context
11We are all one man's sons. We are TRUE men. Thy servants are no spies.
Cross References
Genesis 27:37And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. And what then shall I do for thee, my son?
Genesis 44:9With whomever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
1 Kings 18:7And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him. And he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it thou, my lord Elijah?
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:8-21
Joseph Speaks Roughly to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1706.) 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy… Read the whole commentary →