Genesis 42:11
We're all the sons of one man and we're honest. We're not spies!”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
In Context
10“That's not true, my lord!” they responded. “We, your servants, have just come to buy food.
12“No! You've come to find our country's weaknesses!” he insisted.
Cross References
Genesis 42:33Then the man who is the country's governor said to us, ‘This is how I'll find out if you're telling the truth: you are to leave one of your brothers here with me while the rest take grain home for your hungry families.
John 7:18Those who speak for themselves want to glorify themselves, but someone who glorifies the one who sent him is truthful and not deceitful.
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 →