Gen 42:9-11 | TSK | e4.org | remembered Ye are spies Persons who, under the pretence of wishing to buy corn, desire only to find out whether the land be so defenceless that the tribes to which you belong may attack it successfully, drive out the inhabitants, and settle themselves in it; or, having plundered it, retire into their deserts. This is a frequent custom among the Arabs to the present day. , , , ; , ; , ; ; ; ; nakedness

‏ Genesis 42:9-11

Ye are spies Persons who, under the pretence of wishing to buy corn, desire only to find out whether the land be so defenceless that the tribes to which you belong may attack it successfully, drive out the inhabitants, and settle themselves in it; or, having plundered it, retire into their deserts. This is a frequent custom among the Arabs to the present day. Gen 42:9, Gen 42:16, Gen 42:30-31, Gen 42:34; Num 13:2, Num 13:16-20; Josh 2:1, Josh 6:23; Judg 1:24; 1Sam 26:4; Luke 20:20; Heb 11:31

nakedness Exod 32:35

Gen 27:29, Gen 27:37, Gen 37:8, Gen 44:9; 1Sam 26:17; 1Kgs 18:7

We are etc. We do not belong to different tribes; and it is not likely that one family would make a hostile attempt upon a whole kingdom; nor, if any serious design had been intended, that one man would have sent his sons on so hazardous an expedition.

true men Gen 42:19, Gen 42:33-34; John 7:18; 2Cor 6:4