Genesis 42:9-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 he was reminded of the dreams he had about them. He said to them: “You are spies.(A) You have come to see the weak points[a] of the land.” 10 “No, my lord,” they replied. “On the contrary, your servants have come to buy food. 11 All of us are sons of the same man. We are honest men; your servants have never been spies.”
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- 42:9, 12 Weak points: lit., “the nakedness of the land”; the military weakness of the land, like human nakedness, should not be seen by strangers.
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