16Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
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We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
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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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