New International Reader's Version

Genesis 42:9-14 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

9. Then Joseph remembered his dreams about them. So he said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the places where our land isn't guarded very well."

10. "No, sir," they answered. "We've come to buy food.

11. All of us are the sons of one man. We're honest men. We aren't spies."

12. "No!" he said to them. "You have come to see the places where our land isn't guarded very well."

13. But they replied, "We were 12 brothers. All of us were the sons of one man. He lives in the land of Canaan. Our youngest brother is now with our father. And one brother is gone."

14. Joseph said to them, "I still say you are spies!