Genesis 42:11
We are all one man's sons. We are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
In Context
10They said to him, “No, my master. Your servants have come to buy food.
12He said to them, “No, you have come to see the undefended parts of the land.”
Cross References
Genesis 42:33The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, take grain for the famine in your houses, and go your way.
John 7:18Whoever speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but whoever seeks the glory of him who sent him, that person is true, and there is no unrighteousness 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 →