Jacob’s sons lie again

Genesis 43:7 says, “And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?”  This isn’t the truth.  Genesis 42:11 says, “We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.

42:12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

42:13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.”  Joseph didn’t say anything about their state.  He was just calling them spies.  They are the ones counting a dead brother as one of their number.