Genesis 42:10
“That's not true, my lord!” they responded. “We, your servants, have just come to buy food.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
In Context
11We're all the sons of one man and we're honest. We're not spies!”
Cross References
Genesis 27:37Isaac replied to Esau. “I have made him ruler over you, and have said that all his relatives will be his servants. I have declared that he will be well supplied with grain and new wine. So what is left that I can do for you, my son?”
Genesis 44:9If any one of us is found with it, he shall die, and all of us will become your slaves.”
1 Kings 18:7As Obadiah went on his way, Elijah came to meet him. Obadiah recognized him, bowed down to the ground, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
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 →