Genesis 42:10
Good News Translation
"No, sir," they answered. "We have come as your slaves, to buy food.

New Revised Standard Version
They said to him, “No, my lord; your servants have come to buy food.

Contemporary English Version
"No sir," they replied. "We're your servants, and we have only come to buy grain.

New American Bible
“No, my lord,” they replied. “On the contrary, your servants have come to buy food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come to buy food.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come to buy food.

Genesis 27:29,37 And let peoples serve thee, and tribes worship thee: be thou lord of thy brethren, and let thy mother's children bow down before thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee: and let him that blesseth thee be filled with blessings. . . .

Genesis 37:8 His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.

Genesis 44:9 With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou seekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of my lord.

1 Samuel 26:17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said: Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said: It is my voice, my lord the king.

1 Kings 18:7 And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said: Art thou my lord Elias?

Context
Joseph's Brothers Sent to Egypt
9And 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. 10But they said: It is not so, my lord; but thy servants are come to buy food.11We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:8
His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.

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 42:9
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