Genesis 42:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ We are all sons of one man; we are honest men; your servants have never been spies.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ We are all one man's sons; we are true men; your servants are not spies.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.

Common English Bible

¹¹ We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants aren’t spies.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ We are all sons of one man. We have come in peace, nor do any of your subjects devise evil."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men; neither do thy servants go about any evil.

Genesis 42:11 Cross References

Genesis 42:12

But he said to them, “No, you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

Genesis 42:16

Let one of you go and bring your brother, while the rest of you remain in prison, in order that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else, as Pharaoh lives, surely you are spies.”

Genesis 42:19

if you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here where you are imprisoned. The rest of you shall go and carry grain for the famine of your households

Genesis 42:31

But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.

Genesis 43:7

They replied, “The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”

John 7:18

Those who speak on their own seek their own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is nothing unjust in him.

2 Corinthians 6:4

but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities,