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Genesis 42:7

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7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

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Arcana Coelestia # 5519

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5519. 'By this I shall know that you are upright men' means its willingness, provided that they were not interested in truths for the sake of gain. This is clear from the meaning of 'knowing' here as being willing, for the train of thought leads on to this; and from the meaning of 'that you are upright men', and so not spies, as people whose interest in truths was not for the sake of gain, dealt with in 5432, 5512.

  
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