Genesis 42:29-31

New American Standard Bible

Simeon Is Held Hostage

²⁹ When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that had happened to them, saying, ³⁰ “The man, the lord of the land, ^(A)spoke harshly with us, and took us for spies of the country. ³¹ But we said to him, ‘We are ^(B)honest men; we are not spies.