Genesis 42:12
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And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.

nakedness.

Genesis 42:9 And remembering the dreams, which formerly he had dreamed, he said to them: You are spies. You are come to view the weaker parts of the land.

Context
Joseph's Brothers Sent to Egypt
11We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil. 12And he answered them: It is otherwise: you are come to consider the unfenced parts of this land.13But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.…
Cross References
Genesis 42:11
We are all the sons of one man: we are come as peaceable men, neither do thy servants go about any evil.

Genesis 42:13
But they said: We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Chanaan: the youngest is with our father, the other is not living.

Lexicon
“No,”
לֹ֕א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

he told
וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

them.
אֲלֵהֶ֑ם (’ă·lê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

“You have come
בָּאתֶ֥ם (bā·ṯem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to see
לִרְאֽוֹת׃ (lir·’ō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

if our land
הָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

[is] vulnerable.”
עֶרְוַ֥ת (‘er·waṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6172: Nakedness


Additional Translations
“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”And he said to them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land you are come.

And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

And he said to them, Nay, but ye are come to observe the marks of the land.

And he said to them, No; but to see the exposed places of the land are ye come.

And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

And he said to them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land have ye come.

He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!"

and he saith unto them, 'No, but the nakedness of the land ye have come to see;'
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