Bible verse

Genesis 42:10

“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.

Genesis 42:10 · BSB

Genesis 42:10 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 42.

6 Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

7 And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”

8 Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

9 Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

10 “Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.

11 We are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.”

12 “No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

13 But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

14 Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!

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Genesis 42:10 in other translations

KJV

And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

ASV

And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

ERV

And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

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