Genesis 42:12
and he says to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land”;
Literal Standard Version
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 of us sons of one man, we [are] right men; your servants have not been spies”;
Cross References
Genesis 42:15by this you are proved: [as] Pharaoh lives, if you go out from this—except by your young brother coming here;
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 →