Genesis 42:12
And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 42:15I shall now presently try what you are: by the health of Pharao you shall not depart hence, until your youngest brother come.
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 →