7And 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?
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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.
And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
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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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