Genesis 42:9
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- remembered
- Genesis 37:5–9
- 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.
- Genesis 42:9, 16, 30, 31, 34; Numbers 13:2, 16–20; Joshua 2:1; Joshua 6:23; Judges 1:24; 1 Samuel 26:4; Luke 20:20; Hebrews 11:31
- nakedness
- Exodus 32:35