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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

11We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

13But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.

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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 →

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