Genesis 42:31
And we sayd vnto him: we meane truely, we neuer were spyes.
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- Gen 42:11 : 11 We are all one mans sonnes, and meane truely, and thy seruauntes are no spyes.
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- Gen 42:9-168 verses90%
9And Ioseph remembred his dreames whiche he dreamed of them, and sayde vnto them: ye are spyes, and to see where the lande is weake, is your commyng.
10And they sayde vnto hym: nay my Lord, but to bye vitayle thy seruauntes are come.
11We are all one mans sonnes, and meane truely, and thy seruauntes are no spyes.
12And he sayde vnto them agayne: nay but euen to see where the lande is weake, is your comming.
13And they said: we thy seruauntes are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Chanaan, and beholde, the youngest is this day with our father, & one, no man woteth where he is.
14And Ioseph saide vnto them: that is it that I spake vnto you when I sayd, ye are spyes.
15Hereby ye shalbe proued: by the lyfe of Pharao, ye shall not go hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
16Sende out one of you, whiche may fet your brother, and ye shalbe kept in pryson, that your wordes may be proued whether there be any trueth in you: or els by the lyfe of Pharao, ye are but spyes.
- Gen 42:29-302 verses84%
29And they came vnto Iacob their father, vnto the lande of Chanaan, & tolde him all that befell vnto them, saying:
30The man, euen the Lord of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and toke vs for spyes of the countrey.
- Gen 42:32-343 verses82%
32We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is away, and the youngest is this day with our father in the lande of Chanaan.
33And the Lorde of the countrey sayde agayne vnto vs, Hereby shall I know that ye meane truely: leaue one of your brethren here with me, and take foode to put away the famine fro your householdes, and get you away.
34And bring your youngest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that you are no spyes, but meane truely: so wyll I deliuer you your brother, and ye shall occupie in the lande.
- Gen 43:3-75 verses76%
3Iuda aunswered him, and sayd, The man did solemply protest vnto vs saying: ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
4If thou wylt sende our brother with vs, we wyll go downe, and bye thee foode.
5But yf thou wylt not sende hym, we wyll not go downe: for the man sayde vnto vs, ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
6And Israel sayd: wherefore dealt ye so cruelly with me, as to tell the man that ye had yet a brother?
7They aunswered, The man asked vs straytely of our state and of our kinrede, saying: Is your father yet aliue? haue ye not another brother? And we tolde hym accordyng to the tenour of these wordes: Could we by any meane knowe, that he would say, bryng your brother downe with you?
- Gen 44:7-82 verses74%
7And they aunswered him: wherfore sayeth my Lorde suche wordes? God forbid that thy seruauntes should do so.
8Beholde the money which we founde in our sackes mouthes, we brought agayne vnto thee, out of the land of Chanaan: howe then shoulde we steale out of thy Lordes house eyther siluer or golde?
- Gen 44:24-274 verses73%
24And when we came vnto thy seruaunt our father, we shewed hym the wordes of my Lorde.
25And our father sayde vnto vs: go agayne, and bye vs a litle foode.
26And we aunswered, we can not go downe: neuerthelesse, if our youngest brother be with vs, then wyll we go downe, for we may not see the mans face, except our youngest brother be with vs.
27And thy seruaunt our father sayd vnto vs: ye knowe that my wyfe bare me two sonnes.
- Gen 42:19-213 verses73%
19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bonde in the house of your pryson: and go ye, carry corne to put away the famine from your housholde.
20But bryng your youngest brother vnto me, and so shal your wordes be tryed true, and ye shall not dye: & they dyd so.
21And one sayde to another: we haue veryly sinned agaynst our brother, in that we sawe the anguishe of his soule, when he besought vs, and we woulde not heare him: and therfore is this trouble come vpon vs.
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17And the men sayde vnto her: We wyl be blamelesse of this thy oth which thou hast made vs sweare:
- Gen 43:20-223 verses72%
20And sayde: oh sir, we came downe hyther at the fyrst tyme to bye foode.
21And as we came to an Inne, we opened our sackes, and behold, euery mans money was in the mouth of his sacke, euen our money in ful wayght, and we haue brought it againe in our hande.
22And other money haue we brought also in our handes to bye foode: but we can not tell who put our money in our sackes.
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14And the men aunswered her: Our lyues for you to dye, yf ye vtter not this our busynesse. And when the Lorde hath geuen vs the lande, we wyll deale mercyfully and truely with thee.
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20And we aunswered my lorde: we haue a father that is olde, and a young lad, which he begat in his age: and the brother of the sayd lad is dead, and he is all that is left of his mother, and his father loueth him.
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32And they are shepheardes, for theyr trade hath ben to feede cattell: and they haue brought theyr sheepe and theyr cattell, and all that they haue.
- 1 Sam 25:15-162 verses69%
15And yet the men were very good vnto vs, and dyd vs no displeasure, neither missed we any thyng as long as we were conuersaunt with them when we were in the fieldes.
16They were a wall vnto vs both by night and day, all the while we were with them keping sheepe.
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22And we aunswered my Lorde, that the lad could not go from his father, for if he shoulde leaue his father, he were but dead.
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14But wyll say thus, We wyll not dwell heare, but go into Egypt, where we shall neither see warre, heare the noyse of the trumpe, nor suffer hunger, there wyll we dwell:
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16Then saide Iuda: what shall we say vnto my lorde? What shall we speake? or howe shall we cleare our selues? God hath founde out the wickednes of thy seruauntes: beholde, we are my lordes seruauntes, both we, yea, and he also with whom the cup is founde.
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18When the men were brought into Iosephes house, they were afrayde, and said: because of the money that came in our sackes mouthes at the first tyme, are we brought in, that he may seeke occasion agaynst vs, and violently lay handes vpon vs, to bryng vs in bondage, and our asses also.
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5And they sayde vnto Ieremie, The Lorde be a true and faithfull witnesse betwixt vs, that we wyll do all that the Lorde thy God commaundeth vs.
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18Also his brethren came vnto hym, and fell flat before his face, saying: beholde, we be thy seruauntes.