Genesis 42:14

He said: “This is just as I have said. You are scouts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

In Context

13But they said: “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father; the other is not living.”

15I will now continue to put you to the test. By the health of Pharaoh, you will not depart from here, until your youngest brother arrives.

Read all of Genesis 42

Cross References

Genesis 42:9And remembering the dreams, which he had seen in another time, he said to them: “You are scouts. You have come in order to see which parts of the land are weaker.”

Job 19:11His fury has raged against me, and in this way he has treated me like his enemy.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Genesis 42:14