World English Bible
Genesis 42:30
“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.”
Verse in context — Genesis 42
28
He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?
29
They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
30
The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
31
We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.
32
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
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