Genesis 42:10
And they said: “It is not so, my lord. But your servants have arrived in order to buy food.
Catholic Public Domain 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 sons of one man. We have come in peace, nor do any of your subjects devise evil.”
Cross References
Genesis 27:37Isaac answered: “I have appointed him as your lord, and I have subjugated all his brothers as his servants. I have reinforced him with grain and wine, and after this, my son, what more shall I do for you?”
Genesis 44:9Whichever of your servants will be found to have what you seek, may he die, and we shall be the servants of my lord.”
1 Kings 18:7And while Obadiah was on the way, Elijah met him. And when he had recognized him, he fell on his face, and he said, “Are you not 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 →