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Commentaries on Genesis 42:25

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Genesis 42 This chapter relates how that Jacob having heard there was corn in Egypt, sent all his sons but Benjamin thither to buy corn, Genesis 42:1; and coming before Joseph, they bowed to him, and he knowing them, though they knew not him, spoke roughly to them, and charged them with being spies, Genesis 42:6; they in their defence urged that they were the sons of one man in...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn,.... Which was as much as they came for: and to restore every man's money into his sack; the money paid by each for his quantity of corn delivered to him, not into the person's hands, but to be put into his sack privately, and unknown to him; and to give them provision for the way; sufficient both for themselves and for their cattle, that they...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

We had, in the foregoing chapter, the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph had interpreted: in this and the following chapters we have the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph himself had dreamed, that his father's family should do homage to him. The story is very largely and particularly related of what passed between Joseph and his brethren, not only because it is an entertaining story, and...