Genesis 42:9
And 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.”
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In Context
8And although he knew his brothers, he was not known by them.
10And they said: “It is not so, my lord. But your servants have arrived in order to buy food.
Cross References
Genesis 37:11Therefore, his brothers were envious of him. Yet truly, his father considered the matter silently.
Genesis 42:30“The lord of the land spoke harshly to us, and he considered us to be scouts of the province.
Exodus 32:35Therefore, the Lord struck the people for the guilt of the calf, which Aaron had made.
Numbers 13:16from the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.
Joshua 6:23And the youths entered, and they led out Rahab, and her parents, also her brothers, and all her goods and kindred, and they caused them to dwell outside the camp.
1 Samuel 26:4he sent explorers, and he learned that he certainly had arrived in that place.
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 →