But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
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Gill's Exposition
But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt,.... Not then growing, or gathering in there, or that was of that year's produce; for the famine was strong in the land of Egypt, as well as in…
Barnes' Notes
Was corn in Egypt - The word “corn” here rather denotes “wheat.” See the notes on Mat 12:1. Our fathers - His ten sons; all his sons except Joseph and Benjamin, Gen. 42: Stephen here “refers” only to…
Stephen is now at the bar before the great council of the nation, indicted for blasphemy: what the witnesses swore against him we had an account of in the foregoing chapter, that he spoke blasphemous…
Cambridge Bible
he sent out our fathers first i.e. before he himself went away from Canaan into Egypt.