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Genesis 42:30
ESV “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.
NIV The man who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us and treated us as though we were spying on the land.
NASB The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
CSB "The man who is the lord of the country spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.
NLT The man who is governor of the land spoke very harshly to us,' they told him. 'He accused us of being spies scouting the land.
KJV The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

What does Genesis 42:30 mean?

Jacob's sons begin to tell him about their troubling experience in Egypt. They had been sent there by Jacob together to buy grain in this season of famine (Genesis 42:1–5). Now they recount that the governor of the nation roughly accused them of being spies (Genesis 42:7–12). They don't know, yet, that the Egyptian leader was their long-lost brother Joseph (Genesis 42:7–8).

Joseph was the one his ten older brothers jealously sold as a slave some twenty years earlier (Genesis 37:28). In that incident, the men lied to their father by saying Joseph was dead (Genesis 37:31–33). Jacob's reaction was catastrophic (Genesis 37:34–35). Now, they are forced to report the loss of another brother (Genesis 42:18–19, 24), and the potential loss of a third.
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