Quotes About Deception

When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

So Potipharís wife kept Josephís cloak beside her until his master came home.

Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,

but when I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.

When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.

Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

We are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies.”

“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!

Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.

“The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.

But we told him, ëWe are honest men, not spies.

As they began emptying their sacks, there in each manís sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.

But the brothers were frightened that they had been taken to Josephís house. “We have been brought here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest oneís sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.

Is this not the cup my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wicked!í”

“Why does my lord say these things?” they asked. “Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.

We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your masterís house?

He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horseís heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”