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But we saidוַנֹּאמֶרto him,אֵלָיו‘Weאֲנָחְנוּare honest men;כֵּנִיםwe have neverלֹאbeenהָיִינוּspies.מְרַגְּלִים
Genesis 42:31
Study it in the app“But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 42:31, word by word
- But we saidנֹּאמֶרnomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “nomer” appears- beenהָיִינוּhayinu
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayinu” appears- spiesמְרַגְּלִיםmeraglim
spy
To go through a land secretly to learn about it; the scouts.
Where else “meraglim” appears
The context
30“The man, the lord of the land, spoke with us harshly and took us for men spying out the land.
31 · This verse (above)
32We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; the one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’
To study Genesis 42 in a group
1. What it says
What did Joseph do when he saw his brothers, and what did they find in their sacks (vv. 7-28)?
2. What it means
Why did the brothers say they were paying for what they did to their brother (v. 21)?
3. How I live it
What mistake from the past do you need to face honestly today?