Genesis 42:11

Geneva Bible (1560)

Wee are all one mans sonnes: wee meane truely, and thy seruants are no spies.

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  • Gen 42:19 : 19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your prison house, and goe ye, carie foode for the famine of your houses:
  • Gen 42:33-34 : 33 Then the Lord of the countrey sayde vnto vs, Hereby shal I knowe if ye be true men: Leaue one of your brethren with me, and take foode for the famine of your houses and depart, 34 And bring your yongest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies, but true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and yee shall occupie in the land.
  • John 7:18 : 18 Hee that speaketh of himselfe, seeketh his owne glorie: but hee that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no vnrighteousnes is in him.
  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 But in all things we approue our selues as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

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  • Gen 42:29-34
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    90%

    29 And they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen them, saying,

    30 The man, who is Lorde of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.

    31 And we sayd vnto him, We are true men, and are no spies.

    32 We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is not, and the yongest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

    33 Then the Lord of the countrey sayde vnto vs, Hereby shal I knowe if ye be true men: Leaue one of your brethren with me, and take foode for the famine of your houses and depart,

    34 And bring your yongest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies, but true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and yee shall occupie in the land.

  • Gen 42:9-10
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    9 And Ioseph remembred the dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the weaknesse of the land.

    10 But they sayde vnto him, Nay, my lorde, but to bye vitayle thy seruants are come.

  • Gen 42:12-16
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    12 But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.

    13 And they said, We thy seruants are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan: and beholde, the yongest is this day with our father, and one is not.

    14 Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.

    15 Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shal not goe hence, except your yongest brother come hither.

    16 Send one of you which may fet your brother, & ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proued, whether there bee trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies.

  • Gen 44:7-9
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    7 And they answered him, Wherefore sayeth my lorde such wordes? God forbid that thy seruants should do such a thing.

    8 Behold, the money which we found in our sackes mouthes, wee brought againe to thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steale out of thy lordes house siluer or golde?

    9 With whomesoeuer of thy seruants it bee found, let him dye, and we also will be my lordes bondmen.

  • 19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your prison house, and goe ye, carie foode for the famine of your houses:

  • 17 And the men said vnto her, We will be blamelesse of this thine othe, which thou hast made vs sweare.

  • 14 And the men answered her, Our life for you to die, if ye vtter not this our businesse: and when the Lorde hath giuen vs the lande, we will deale mercifully and truely with thee.

  • 18 Also his brethren came vnto him, and fell downe before his face, and sayde, Beholde, we be thy seruants.

  • 7 And they answered, The man asked straitly of our selues and of our kinred, saying, Is your father yet aliue? haue ye any brother? And wee tolde him according to these wordes: could we knowe certainely that he would say, Bring your brother downe?

  • 49 And saide to Moses, Thy seruants haue taken the summe of the men of warre which are vnder our authoritie, and there lacketh not one man of vs.

  • Gen 44:26-27
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    26 Then we answered, We can not go downe: but if our yongest brother go with vs, then will we go downe: for we may not see the mans face, except our yongest brother be with vs.

    27 Then thy seruant my father sayde vnto vs, Ye knowe that my wife bare me two sonnes,

  • 20 And said, Oh syr, we came in deede down hither at the first time to bye foode,

  • 36 Beholde, we are seruants this day, and the lande that thou gauest vnto our fathers, to eate the fruite thereof, and the goodnesse thereof, beholde, we are seruants therein.

  • 24 So when we came vnto thy seruant our father, and shewed him what my lord had sayd,

  • 32 And the men are shepheardes, & because they are shepheardes, they haue brought their sheepe and their cattell, and all that they haue.

  • 21 And they said one to another, We haue verily sinned against our brother, in that we sawe the anguish of his soule, when he besought vs, and we would not heare him: therefore is this trouble come vpon vs.

  • 8 And they said vnto Ioshua, We are thy seruants. Then Ioshua saide vnto them, Who are ye? And whence come ye?

  • 16 Then sayd Iudah, What shall we say vnto my lord? what shall we speake? and howe can we iustifie our selues? God hath found out the wickednesse of thy seruants: beholde, we are seruants to my Lorde, both wee, and he, with whome the cuppe is founde.

  • Gen 44:19-20
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    69%

    19 My Lord asked his seruants, saying, Haue ye a father, or a brother?

    20 And we answered my Lorde, We haue a father that is olde, and a young childe, which he begate in his age: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loueth him.

  • Gen 47:18-19
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    18 But when the yeere was ended, they came vnto him the next yeere, and sayd vnto him, We will not hide from my lord, that since our money is spent, and my lord hath the heards of the cattel, there is nothing left in the sight of my lorde, but our bodies and our ground.

    19 Why shall we perish in thy sight, both we, and our land? bye vs and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bonde to Pharaoh: therefore giue vs seede, that we may liue and not dye, and that the land go not to waste.

  • Gen 47:3-4
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    3 Then Pharaoh said vnto his brethren, What is your trade? And they answered Pharaoh, Thy seruants are shepheards, both we and our fathers.

    4 They sayde moreouer vnto Pharaoh, For to soiourne in ye lande are we come: for thy seruants haue no pasture for their sheepe, so sore is ye famine in the lande of Canaan. Nowe therefore, we pray thee, let thy seruants dwel in the land of Goshen.

  • 22 Also other money haue we brought in our handes to bye foode, but we cannot tell, who put our money in our sackes.

  • 11 Wherefore our elders, and all the inhabitants of our countrey spake to vs, saying, Take vitailes with you for the iourney, and go to meete them, and say vnto them, Wee are your seruants: now therefore make ye a league with vs.

  • 22 Then ye came vnto me euery one, and said, We wil send men before vs, to search vs out the land & to bring vs word againe, what way we must go vp by, & vnto what cities we shall come.

  • 16 They were as a wall vnto vs both by night & by day, all the while we were with them keeping sheepe.

  • 32 Doubtlesse thy seruant became suertie for the childe to my father, and said, If I bring him not vnto thee againe, then I will beare the blame vnto my father for euer.