Genesis 42:14

And Joseph says to them, “This [is] that which I have spoken to you, saying, You [are] spies,

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In The King James Version

And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

In Context

13and they say, “Your servants [are] twelve brothers; we [are] sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the young one [is] with our father today, and one is not.”

15by this you are proved: [as] Pharaoh lives, if you go out from this—except by your young brother coming here;

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Cross References

Genesis 42:9and Joseph remembers the dreams which he dreamed of them and says to them, “You [are] spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.”

Job 19:11And He kindles His anger against me, || And reckons me to Him as His adversaries.

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 →

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