Genesis 42:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

Genesis 42:8 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 37:2
These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
John 20:14
And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
John 21:4
But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
Luke 24:16
But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

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Dissembling

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 the b…

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

(vv. 8)

7-8. Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, ... but they knew not him--This is not strange. They were full-grown men--he was but a lad at parting. They were in their usual garb--he was in his official robes. They never dreamt of him as governor of Egypt, while he had been expecting them. They had but one face; he had ten persons to judge by. made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly--I…