Genesis 42:11
We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
In Context
10But they said: It is not so, my lord, but thy servants are come to buy food.
12And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.
Cross References
Genesis 42:33And he said to us: Hereby shall I know that you are peaceable men: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take ye necessary provision for your houses, and go your ways.
John 7:18He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice 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 →