Genesis 42:11

New American Bible - revised edition

All of us are sons of the same man. We are honest men; your servants have never been spies.”

Cross References

Genesis 42:19

If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in this prison, while the rest of you go and take home grain for your starving families.

2 Corinthians 6:4

on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints,

John 7:18

Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is no wrong in him.

Genesis 42:12

But he answered them: “Not so! It is the weak points of the land that you have come to see.”

Genesis 42:16

So send one of your number to get your brother, while the rest of you stay here under arrest. Thus will your words be tested for their truth; if they are untrue, as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

Genesis 42:31

But we said to him: ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies.

Genesis 43:7

They answered: “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still living? Do you have another brother?’ We answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here’?”