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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
And he said unto his brethren, my money is restored,.... The money paid for the corn is returned: and, lo, [it is] even in my sack; this put them all upon opening their sacks, where every man found his money, though not expressed, see Genesis 43:21: and their heart failed [them]; through surprise and fear; or "went out" (c) front them, as it were, they were ready to faint and swoon away: and they...
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...