Genesis 42:11

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 42:19 : 19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
  • Gen 42:33-34 : 33 The 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, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way. 34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"
  • John 7:18 : 18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
  • 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

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

    30 "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

    31 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.

    32 We 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.'

    33 The 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, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

    34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.'"

  • Gen 42:9-10
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    9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."

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    12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

    13 They said, "We, 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."

    14 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!'

    15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

    16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."

  • Gen 44:7-9
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    7 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

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    9 With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."

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    19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

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    49 and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.

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    26 We said, 'We can't 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.'

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    22 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our sacks."

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