Genesis 42:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Joseph also remembered the dreams that he had dreamed about them. He said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

Cross References

Genesis 37:11

So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

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 42:34

Bring your youngest brother to me, and I shall know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will release your brother to you, and you may trade in the land.’ ”

2 Samuel 10:3

the princes of the Ammonites said to their lord Hanun, “Do you really think that David is honoring your father just because he has sent messengers with condolences to you? Has not David sent his envoys to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”

Exodus 32:35

Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf—the one that Aaron had made.

Numbers 13:2

“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites; from each of their ancestral tribes you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.”

Luke 20:20

So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be honest, in order to trap him by what he said and then to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor.

Hebrews 11:31

By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had received the spies in peace.

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and spent the night there.

Joshua 6:23

So the young men who had been spies went in and brought Rahab out, along with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all who belonged to her—they brought all her kindred out—and set them outside the camp of Israel.

Judges 1:24

When the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

1 Samuel 26:4

David sent out spies and learned that Saul had indeed arrived.