Genesis 42:10
“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.
BSB
ASV
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
KJV
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
Ye are spies--This is a suspicion entertained regarding strangers in all Eastern countries down to the present day. Joseph, however, who was well aware that his brethren were not spies, has been charged with cruel dissimulation, with a deliberate violation of what he knew to be the truth, in imputing to them such a character.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Genesis 27:29May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you…
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He crouches, he lies down like a lion; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD;…
not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
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1 Samuel 26:17Then Saul recognized David’s voice and asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” “It is my voice, my lord and king,” David said.
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When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud
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Genesis 44:9If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”
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If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know…
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Genesis 27:37But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can…
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May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.