Genesis 42:10
And they said unto him, Lo, adoni, but to buy okhel are thy avadim come.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
In Context
11We are all bnei ish echad; we are truthful ones, thy avadim are no meragelim.
Cross References
Genesis 27:37And Yitzchak answered and said unto Esav, See, I have made him gevir over you, and all his achim have I given to him for avadim; and with dagan and tirosh have I sustained him; and what shall I do now unto thee, beni?
Genesis 44:9With whomsoever of thy avadim it be found, both let him die, and we also will be avadim of adoni.
1 Kings 18:7And as Ovadyah was baderech (on the way, road), hinei, Eliyahu met him; and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, adoni Eliyahu?
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 →