The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
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Gill's Exposition
And, bring your youngest brother unto me,.... Their brother Benjamin:
then shall I know that you are no spies, but that you are true men; he knew they were no spies now, but true, honest, upright…
- Joseph and Ten of His Brethren 1. שׁבר sheber, “fragment, crumb, hence, grain.” בר bar “pure,” “winnowed,” hence, “corn” (grain). 6. שׁליט shallı̂yṭ, “ruler, governor, hence,” Sultan. Not elsewhere…
Here is, 1. The report which Jacob's sons made to their father of the great distress they had been in in Egypt; how they had been suspected, and threatened, and obliged to leave Simeon a prisoner…
Cambridge Bible
took us for spies Lit. "put us as spies." Probably the words "in ward" should be supplied, as LXX ἔθετο ἡμᾶς ἐν φυλακῇ; the Lat. putavit nosrenders as the English versions.