Genesis 42:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

We are all one man's sons; we are honest men, your servants are not spies.

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  • Gen 42:19 : 19 If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison: go, carry grain for the famine of your houses:
  • Gen 42:33-34 : 33 And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, Hereby shall I know that you are honest men; leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone: 34 And bring your youngest brother to me: then shall I know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men: so will I deliver you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.
  • John 7:18 : 18 He who speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 But in all things commending ourselves 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%

    29And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them; saying,

    30The man, who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

    31And we said to him, We are honest men; we are not spies:

    32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

    33And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, Hereby shall I know that you are honest men; leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:

    34And bring your youngest brother to me: then shall I know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men: so will I deliver you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.

  • Gen 42:9-10
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    85%

    9And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them, You are spies; to see the nakedness of the land you have come.

    10And they said to him, No, my lord, but to buy food your servants have come.

  • Gen 42:12-16
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    12And he said to them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land you have come.

    13And they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.

    14And Joseph said to them, That is it that I spoke to you, saying, You are spies:

    15Hereby you shall be tested: By the life of Pharaoh you shall not go forth from here, except your youngest brother come here.

    16Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and you shall be kept in prison, that your words may be tested, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.

  • Gen 44:7-9
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    7And they said to him, Why does my lord say these words? God forbid that your servants should do such a thing as this:

    8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan: how then should we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?

    9Whichever of your servants it is found with, let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves.

  • Gen 42:19
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    19If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be bound in the house of your prison: go, carry grain for the famine of your houses:

  • Josh 2:17
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    17And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this your oath which you have made us swear.

  • Josh 2:14
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    14And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if you do not reveal this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.

  • Gen 50:18
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    18And his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, Behold, we are your servants.

  • Gen 43:7
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    7And they said, The man asked us specifically about our state and kindred, saying, Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? And we answered him according to these words: could we know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

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    49And they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and not a man of us is lacking.

  • Gen 44:26-27
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    26And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.

    27And your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons:

  • Gen 43:20
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    20And said, O sir, we indeed came down the first time to buy food:

  • Neh 9:36
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    36Here we are, servants today! And the land that You gave to our forefathers to eat its fruit and its bounty, here we are, servants in it.

  • Gen 44:24
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    24And it came to pass when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

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    32And the men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, herds, and all that they have.

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    21And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.

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    8And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. And Joshua said to them, Who are you? and where do you come from?

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    16And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and also he with whom the cup is found.

  • Gen 44:19-20
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    19My lord asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or a brother?

    20And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.

  • Gen 47:18-19
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    18When that year ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord, that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands:

    19Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

  • Gen 47:3-4
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    3And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

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    69%

    22And other money we have brought down in our hands to buy food: we do not know who put our money in our sacks.

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    11Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants: therefore now make a treaty with us.

  • Deut 1:22
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    22And every one of you came near to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and they shall search out the land for us, and bring us back word of the way we must go up and of the cities we will come to.

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    16They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

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    32For your servant became a guarantee for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.