Genesis 42:12-14

Good News Translation

¹² Joseph said to them, “No! You have come to find out where our country is weak.”

¹³ They said, “We were twelve brothers in all, sir, sons of the same man in the land of Canaan. One brother is dead, and the youngest is now with our father.”

¹⁴ “It is just as I said,” Joseph answered. “You are spies.