Genesis 42:16

Modern English Version

Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested, whether there be any truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, you are surely spies.”

Cross References

Genesis 42:11

We are all one man’s sons. We are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”

Genesis 42:30

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and took us for spies of the country.

2 Samuel 10:3

But the Ammonite officials said to Hanun, their lord, “Has David honored your father in your eyes by sending comforters to you? Was it not in an effort to search out the city, to scout it in order to overthrow it, that he sent his servants to you?”

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men out from Shittim to spy, saying, “Go see the land, especially Jericho.” So they went, and they came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab. They spent the night there.