Genesis 42:11
We are all sons of one man; we are honest men; your servants are not spies.”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
In Context
10But they said to him, “No my lord; your servants have come to buy food.
12But he said to them, “No, you have come to see the weaknesses of the land.”
Cross References
Genesis 42:33But the man who is master in that land said to us, ‘This is how I will discover if you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me and take the grain to supply the needs of your households and depart.
John 7:18The person who speaks on their own authority seeks honor for themselves; but the one who seeks the honor of him who sent him is sincere, and there is nothing false 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 →