Genesis 42:12
Good News Translation
Joseph said to them, "No! You have come to find out where our country is weak."

New Revised Standard Version
But he said to them, “No, you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

Contemporary English Version
"That isn't so!" Joseph insisted. "You've come here to find out where our country is weak."

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.

nakedness.

Genesis 42:9 And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.

Context
Joseph's Brothers Sent to Egypt
11We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil. 12And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.13But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.…
Cross References
Genesis 42:11
We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

Genesis 42:13
But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.

Genesis 42:11
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