And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
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Gill's Exposition
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren,.... Which they perceived by various things in his behaviour to him, by his words, his looks, his gestures, and…
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Adam Clarke
And could not speak peaceably unto him - Does not this imply, in our use of the term, that they were continually quarrelling with him? but this is no meaning of the original: ולא יכלו דברו לשלם velo…
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