7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
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The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
If 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: …
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. …
And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies: …
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. …
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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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