Genesis 42:29-33
Genesis 42:29
When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that had happened to them, saying,
Genesis 42:30
“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
Genesis 42:31
But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.
Genesis 42:32
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’
Genesis 42:33
But the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your households, and go.