Genesis 43:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³¹And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

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Genesis 45:1
Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Jeremiah 31:16
Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
Isaiah 42:14
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 26-34)

Here is, I. The great respect that Joseph’s brethren paid to him. When they brought him the present, they bowed themselves before him (Gen. 43:26); and again, when they gave him an account of their father’s health, they made obeisance, and called him, Thy servant our father, Gen. 43:28. Thus were Joseph’s dreams fulfilled more and more: and even the father, by the sons, bowed before him, according…

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

(vv. 31)

31. Joseph said, Set on bread--equivalent to having dinner served, “bread” being a term inclusive of all victuals. The table was a small stool, most probably the usual round form, “since persons might even then be seated according to their rank or seniority, and the modern Egyptian table is not without its post of honor and a fixed gradation of place” [Wilkinson]. Two or at most three persons were…