Genesis 42:9
And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
8And though he knew his brethren, he was not known by them.
10But they said: It is not so, my lord, but thy servants are come to buy food.
Cross References
Genesis 37:11His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.
Genesis 42:30The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the country.
Exodus 32:35The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt on occasion of the calf which Aaron had made.
Numbers 13:16Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of Machi.
Joshua 6:23And the young men went in and brought out Rahab, and her parents, her brethren also and all her goods and her kindred, and made them to stay without the camp.
1 Samuel 26:4He sent spies, and learned that he was most certainly come thither.
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 →