Genesis 42:10
They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
World English Bible British
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 one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
Cross References
Genesis 27:37Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”
Genesis 44:9With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
1 Kings 18:7As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognised him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
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 →