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Genesis 42:34

Genesis 42:34
And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And he said, my son shall not go down with you,.... He gives a peremptory denial; this was his then present resolution and determination:

for his brother is dead; meaning Joseph, Benjamin's own…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Genesis 42:1-38

- 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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Genesis 42:29-38

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

shall traffick in the land The Vulg. paraphrases ac deinceps quae vultis emendi habeatis licentiam.

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