Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
Parallel translations
- KJV And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
- BSB Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!
- ESV But Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you. You are spies.
- NKJV But Joseph said to them, “It is as I spoke to you, saying, ‘You are spies!’
- NASB Yet Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you, you are spies;
- NLT But Joseph insisted, “As I said, you are spies!
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- Job 19:11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
- Job 13:24Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
- Gen 42:9–11Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
- Matt 15:21–28Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
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