Genesis 42:12
He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"
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- Gen 42:7-115 verses85%
7Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
8Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.
9Joseph 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."
10They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
11We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies."
- Gen 42:13-164 verses83%
13They 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."
14Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!'
15By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
16Send 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 42:29-357 verses80%
29They 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.
31We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no 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.'
33The 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.
34Bring 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.'"
35It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
- Gen 44:7-82 verses74%
7They 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!
8Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
- Gen 44:23-242 verses74%
23You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'
24It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
- Gen 43:6-72 verses73%
6Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"
7They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
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22You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."
- Gen 42:1-33 verses72%
1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
2He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
3Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- Gen 42:19-213 verses72%
19If 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.
20Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.
21They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."
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5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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32These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'
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21You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
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31The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
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26We 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.'
- Gen 43:2-32 verses71%
2It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
3Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
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4They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
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15Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
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18When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
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24and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
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19They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.
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12His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.