Genesis 42:15
By this you will be tested: as sure as Pharaoh lives you will not go away unless your youngest brother comes here.
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14Joseph said to them, “It is just as I said to you, you are spies.
Cross References
Genesis 42:7When Joseph saw his brothers he knew them, but he acted as a stranger toward them and spoke harshly to them and said, “Where do you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.”
Genesis 42:16Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain in prison, that it may be proved whether you are telling the truth or not. Or else, as sure as Pharaoh lives, you are indeed spies.”
Genesis 42:30“The man who is master in that land spoke harshly to us and imprisoned us as spies.
Genesis 43:3But Judah replied, “The man warned us: ‘You will not be able to see me unless your brother is with you.’
Genesis 44:20And we said to you, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. Since his brother is dead, he is the only son of his mother who is left; and his father loves him.’
Genesis 44:23Then you said to us, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not be able to see me again.’
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 →