Genesis 42:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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

He said to them, “No, it is the weakness of the land that you have come to see.”

Genesis 42:16

Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain in prison, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you; or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.”

Genesis 42:19

if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined in your prison, and let the rest 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

He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

2 Corinthians 6:4

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