But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
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Gill's Exposition
And he turned himself about from them, and wept,.... Hearing his brethren confess their sin and guilt to one another in selling him, and Reuben's affectionate concern for him, it wrought so much upon…
- Joseph and Ten of His Brethren 1. שׁבר sheber, “fragment, crumb, hence, grain.” בר bar “pure,” “winnowed,” hence, “corn” (grain). 6. שׁליט shallı̂yṭ, “ruler, governor, hence,” Sultan. Not elsewhere…
We may well wonder that Joseph, during the twenty years that he had now been in Egypt, especially during the last seven years that he had been in power there, never sent to his father to acquaint him…
The second Interview
18. for I fear God See notes on Gen 20:3; Gen 20:11; Gen 22:12; Gen 39:9. Cf. Lev 25:43; Neh 5:15. Joseph reassures his brethren by representing to them that the potentate of…
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