Genesis 43:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:

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Genesis 42:3
And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
Genesis 42:10
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
Genesis 43:7
And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
Genesis 43:3
And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
Genesis 42:35
And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 15-25)

Jacob’s sons, having got leave to take Benjamin with them, were observant of the orders their father had given them, and went down the second time into Egypt to buy corn. If we should ever know what a famine of the word means, let us not think it much to travel as far for spiritual food as they did for corporal food. Now here we have an account of what passed between them and Joseph’s steward, who…