And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
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Gill's Exposition
And Judah spake unto him,.... Reuben the eldest son had met with a repulse already, Gen 42:36; Simeon the next was now in Egypt, Gen 42:24, and Levi, perhaps on account of the affair of Shechem, Gen…
- Joseph and His Eleven Brethren 11. דבשׁ debash, “honey,” from the bee, or sirup from the juice of the grape. בטנים bôṭen, “pistachio nuts.” שׁקד shâqêd, “almond tree;” related: “awake.” The tree…
Here, 1. Jacob urges his sons to go and buy more corn in Egypt, Gen 43:1, Gen 43:2. The famine continued; and the corn they had bought was all spent, for it is meat that perisheth. Jacob, as a good…
The Return to Egypt
2. Go again That Jacob seems to forget about Simeon, is due to the change from the E to the J narrative.
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