Genesis 44:7

WEB

They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

KJV

And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:

Commentary

And they said unto him, wherefore saith my lord these words?.... One of them, in the name of t he rest, perhaps Judah, made answer, as astonished at the charge laid against them, suggesting that there was not the least foundation for it, and were quite surprised to hear anything of this kind alleged against them: God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing; expressing the utmost detestation of such a fact, as being what they could never be guilty of.