And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
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Gill's Exposition
And they said unto him, wherefore saith my lord these words?.... One of them, in the name of the rest, perhaps Judah, made answer, as astonished at the charge laid against them, suggesting that there…
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Cambridge Bible
God forbid Lit. "far be it" = μὴ γένοιτο. The Heb. has no appeal to the Deity; cf. Jos 22:29.
They are convinced of their innocence, and indignantly repel the insinuation that they have rewarded the…
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