Genesis 42:11
We are all sons of one man. We have come in peace, nor do any of your subjects devise evil.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
In Context
10And they said: “It is not so, my lord. But your servants have arrived in order to buy food.
12And he answered them: “It is otherwise. You have come to examine the unguarded parts of this land.”
Cross References
Genesis 42:33And he said to us: ‘Thus will I prove that you are peaceful. Release one of your brothers to me, and take necessary provisions for your houses, and go away,
John 7:18Whoever speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But whoever seeks the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and injustice is not in him.
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 →