Genesis 42:9

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Gen 37:5-9 : 5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 7 for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf." 8 His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words. 9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
  • Gen 42:16 : 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 42:30-31 : 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.
  • Gen 42:34 : 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.'"
  • Exod 32:35 : 35 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
  • Num 13:2 : 2 "Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them."
  • Num 13:16-20 : 16 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. 17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country: 18 and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many; 19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds; 20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes."
  • Josh 2:1 : 1 Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, including Jericho." They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
  • Josh 6:23 : 23 The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
  • Judg 1:24 : 24 The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you."
  • 1 Sam 26:4 : 4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.
  • Luke 20:20 : 20 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
  • Heb 11:31 : 31 By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

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  • Gen 42:10-16
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    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."

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

    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 42:6-8
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    6Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

    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.

  • Gen 37:18-20
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    18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

    19They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

    20Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

  • Gen 37:5-6
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    5Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

    6He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

  • Gen 44:15
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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?"

  • Gen 42:29-31
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    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.

  • Gen 42:34-35
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    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 45:4
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    4Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

  • Gen 42:23
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    23They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

  • Gen 37:10
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    10He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"

  • Gen 37:23
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    23It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

  • Gen 40:8
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    8They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

  • Gen 40:6
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    6Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad.