And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
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Gill's Exposition
Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites,.... For a slave, and that will defeat his dream; and as these were going down to Egypt, where they would sell him, he would be far enough from them, and…
- Joseph Was Sold into Egypt 17. דתין dotayı̂n Dothain, “two wells?” (Gesenius) 25. נכאת neko't “tragacanth” or goat’s-thorn gum, yielded by the “astragalus gummifer”, a native of Mount Lebanon. צרי…
We have here the execution of their plot against Joseph. 1. They stripped him, each striving to seize the envied coat of many colours, Gen 37:23. Thus, in imagination, they degraded him from the…
Cambridge Bible
conceal his blood Referring to the superstition that blood, which was not covered, would cry for vengeance: see note on Gen 4:10. Cf. Job 16:18; Isa 26:21; Eze 24:7.
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