Verse 31
Genesis 42:31
Geneva Bible
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And we sayd vnto him, We are true men, and are no spies.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/נֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלָ֖י/ו כֵּנִ֣ים אֲנָ֑חְנוּ לֹ֥א הָיִ֖ינוּ מְרַגְּלִֽים
English Translation
And they said to me, "We are not spies."
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Chapter 42 Context
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Then Iaakob saw that there was foode in Egypt, and Iaakob said vnto his sonnes, Why gaze ye one vpon...
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And he said, Behold, I haue heard that there is foode in Egypt, Get you downe thither, and bie vs fo...
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So went Iosephs ten brethren downe to bye corne of the Egyptians.
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But Beniamin Iosephs brother woulde not Iaakob send with his brethren: for he saide, Least death sho...
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And the sonnes of Israel came to bye foode among them that came: for there was famine in the land of...
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Now Ioseph was gouerner of the land, who solde to all the people of the lande: then Iosephs brethren...
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And when Ioseph sawe his brethren, hee knewe them, and made himselfe straunge toward them, and spake...
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(Now Ioseph knewe his brethren, but they knew not him.
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And Ioseph remembred the dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, an...
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But they sayde vnto him, Nay, my lorde, but to bye vitayle thy seruants are come.
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Wee are all one mans sonnes: wee meane truely, and thy seruants are no spies.
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But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.
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And they said, We thy seruants are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan: an...
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Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.
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Hereby ye shall be proued: by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not goe hence, except your yongest broth...
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Send one of you which may fet your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be p...
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So he put them in warde three dayes.
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Then Ioseph said vnto them the third day, This do, and liue: for I feare God (Elohim).
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If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your prison house, and goe ye, carie foode...
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But bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they...
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And they said one to another, We haue verily sinned against our brother, in that we sawe the anguish...
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And Reuben answered them, saying, Warned I not you, saying, Sinne not against the childe, and ye wou...
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(And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)
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Then he turned from them, and wept, and turned to them againe, and communed with them, and tooke Sim...
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So Ioseph commanded that they should fill their sackes with wheate, and put euery mans money againe...
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And they layed their vitaile vpon their asses, and departed thence.
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And as one of them opened his sacke for to giue his asse prouender in the ynne, he espyed his money:...
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Then he sayde vnto his brethren, My money is restored: for loe, it is euen in my sacke. And their he...
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And they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen...
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The man, who is Lord of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countre...
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And we sayd vnto him, We are true men, and are no spies.
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We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is not, and the yongest is this day with our father...
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Then the Lord of the countrey sayde vnto vs, Hereby shall I knowe if ye be true men: Leaue one of yo...
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And bring your yongest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies, but true men: so will...
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And as they emptied their sacks, behold, euery mans bundel of money was in his sacke: and when they...
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Then Iaakob their father said to them, Ye haue robbed me of my children: Ioseph is not, and Simeon i...
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Then Reuben answered his father, saying, Slay my two sonnes, if I bring him not to thee againe: deli...
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But he said, My sonne shall not go downe with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if...
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