And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
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Gill's Exposition
And Judah said unto Israel his father, send the lad with me,
and we will arise and go,.... Directly to Egypt for corn; Judah calls Benjamin a lad, because the youngest brother, and tenderly brought…
- 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…
Cambridge Bible
Israel Observe the change from "Jacob" (Gen 42:36) to "Israel" here and Gen 43:43; Gen 43:43. Jacob seems here for the first time to realize that Benjamin is a condition for the next journey to Egypt.…