19If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
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To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
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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