Genesis 42:11
we [are] all of us sons of one man, we [are] right men; your servants have not been spies”;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
In Context
10And they say to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food;
12and he says to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land”;
Cross References
Genesis 42:33And the man, the lord of the land, says to us, By this I know that you [are] right men—leave one of your brothers with me, and take [for] the famine of your houses and go,
John 7:18He who is speaking from himself seeks his own glory, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;
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 →