10For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
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And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Here, 1. Jacob urges his sons to go and buy more corn in Egypt, Gen. 43:1 , 2 . The famine continued; and the corn they had bought was all spent, for it is meat that perisheth. Jacob, as a good master of a family, is in care to provide for those of his own house food convenient; and shall not God provide for his children, for the household of faith ? Jacob bids them go again and buy a little food;…
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