We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
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Gill's Exposition
And Jacob their father said unto them, me have ye bereaved of my children,.... Which looks as if Jacob suspected that they had either sold or slain Joseph, and had done one or the other by Simeon:…
- 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…
Here is, 1. The report which Jacob's sons made to their father of the great distress they had been in in Egypt; how they had been suspected, and threatened, and obliged to leave Simeon a prisoner…
The Return to Canaan
27. one of them Anticipating Gen 42:42. Lit. "the one," i.e. the others followed. This verse and Gen 42:42 are from J, according to which the money is found in the sacks at their…