Quotes About Truth

He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.

So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ëNo shrine prostitute has been here.í”

“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”

As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”

Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.

she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.

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

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.”

But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

And it happened to us just as he had interpreted: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”

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.”

But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

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!”

and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:

Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented.

And Reuben responded, “Didnít I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”

When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to 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.

But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men. Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in the land.í”