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14And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

Genesis 42:14

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  • Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

  • And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. …

  • He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

  • Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-20)

We may well wonder that Joseph, during the twenty years that he had now been in Egypt, especially during the last seven years that he had been in power there, never sent to his father to acquaint him with his circumstances; nay, it is strange that he who so often went throughout all the land of Egypt ( Gen. 41:45 , 46 ) never made an excursion to Canaan, to visit his aged father, when he was in th…

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