Genesis 42:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

Genesis 42:26 —

Old words in this verse

corn: — grain, such as wheat or barley.

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Original word meaning

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Ass (donkey)Coin Finances Interest Lending Money Silver Usury

Commentary

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

(vv. 21-28)

Here is, I. The penitent reflection Joseph’s brethren made upon the wrong they had formerly done to him, Gen. 42:21. They talked the matter over in the Hebrew tongue, not suspecting that Joseph, whom they took for a native of Egypt, understood them, much less that he was the person they spoke of. 1. They remembered with regret the barbarous cruelty wherewith they persecuted him: We are verily guil…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

25-28. Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money--This private generosity was not an infringement of his duty--a defrauding of the revenue. He would have a discretionary power--he was daily enriching the king’s exchequer--and he might have paid the sum from his own purse.