12 And take double money # in your hand ; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your ſacks, carry it again & in your hand ; peradventure it was an overſight /,
i Double to what you carried laſt, either to procure more Corn,
waich may prevent the frequency of ſuch perilous Journeys; or be= cauſe the continuance and increaſe of the ſcarcity had advanced the price. k For it is their money, not ours, and therefore muſt be reſtored. / Either in you, or in the Receiver of your mcney who through multitude of Buyers,and haſte in his buſineſs, might eaſily be miſtaken.
13 Take alſo your brother, and ariſe, go again un- ro the man.
14 And God almighty give you mercy before the man, chat hemay ſend away your other brother, and Benamin: If 1 be bereaved of my children, I am fOr, ani bereaved m, I, as Thave _m An expresſion whereby he ſubmits himſelf and chi been,SC. (zod's Will and Providence, whatever the ifſue ſhall bh _ Eſther 4. 16. Or thus, 4s TI have been already bereaved of ſome of m
deareſt children, ſo 7 ſhall be bereaved of the reſt, and I th i ſolitary ; and if this be my portion, God's will be " —
15 Andthe men took that preſent, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin, and roſe up, and went down to Egypt, and ſtood before Jo- eph.
16 And when Joſeph ſaw Benjamin with them, he _ 11 any ruler of his houſe, Bring theſe men home, and + ſlay, and make ready: for theſe men ſhall + gi . with me at noon ». | mou as
z The uſual rime for the more ſolemn Meal in the Eaſt C TH ;
1 oune- eb.eat: _ gh Ry was the time, and the ſupper the great meal
:7 And the man didas Joſeph bade : and
: the n brought the men into Foleph's houſe. we:
18 And the men were afraid, becauſe +
| ; ; e tney were brought into Foſeph's houſe, and they ſaid Becauſe ofthe money that was returned in our {acks at the'firſt time, are we broughtin, that he may + ſeek occaſion 4-
+ Or,ewice by this.
gainſt us; and fall upon us, and take usfo Heb. rol 2nd our aſſes. ; FE, ECB!
0 _—_— ——_ for Thieves. 19 And they came near to the ſteward of Toſenh? houſe, and they communed with him at the = Il | P-42,
che houſe ; 20 And ſaid, Ofir, *+ wegame i 3- | che firſt time (@ buy food, My vale indeed downat 0"
We 0am Sl And aown; ;
9
Cha] * Cha
42. 27
+ Heb money rome.
* Cha 18. 4- 24. 32
+ Heb. peace,
* Heb. therep Fo your ther.
+Chap.
II, 13.
* Chat 42.13
f Heb tank | © ;prgely
n.
_ # 'Frgely,
Chap. XL: GEN
* Chap. 21 And * it came to paſs, when we came to the
42-27- jnn, that we opened our facks, and behold, every mairs money was in the mouth of his ſack, our money in full weight: and we have brought 1t again 111 Our hand. ; :
22 And other money have we brought down 1n our
hands to buy food : we cannot tell who put our money
in our ſacks.
22 And he ſaid, Peace be to you p; fear not: your God, and the God of your father q hath given you
+ Heb.your trealure in your ſacks 7: + Thad your money, And he
money came brought Simeon out unto them.
fo me. p No harm ſhall come ro you for that matter. q Thus he ſpeaks, becauſe Joſeph had inſtrufed him, as well as others of his family ,in the truc Religion, r By his powerand providence ſecretly putting
it there. ; : 24 And the man broughtthe men into Joſeph's houſe,
* Chap. and * gaye them water, and they waſhed their feer, and
18. 4. and he gave their afles provender. :
St 25 And they made ready the preſent againſt Joſeph came at noon : for they heard that they ſhould eat bread theres ;
26 And when Joſeph came home, they brought him the preſent which was in their hand, into che houſe, and bowed themſelves to him to the earth,
+ Heb. 27 And he asked them of their | welfare, and faid, peace. i« *Ts yourfather well, the old man + of whom ye ſpake*
there peace Is he yet alive? ;
zo yur fo 28 And they anſwered, Thy ſervant 5 our father is
zo. ,,- in good health, hes yer alive: and they bowed down
Tc '3-+**- their heads, and made obeifance. :
ed 5 By which expreſſion delivered-in Jacob's name,and by his order, Jacob himſelf made obciſauce to him, as was foretold, Gen: 37: 9.
29 And he lift up his eyes, and faw 7 his biothet
Benjamin, his mocker*s ſon,and ſaid, 1s this your youn-
el ? And he ſaid
ger brother * of whom ye ſpake unto me? An ,
* Chap. God be gracious untothes my ſons. | 42. 13, t (7. e. ) More narrowly obſerved him, having now more leiſure than he ſeems to have had when he ſaw him firſt, ver: 16. « So he calis him, not from ſpecial affe&ion, which he intended not yer to diſcover ; but becauſe this compellationis commonly uſed when a man ſpeaks toanother who is his inferior inage or c1gnty.
20 And Joſeph made haſte, for his bowels d1d yern x upon his brother 2 and he ſought where to weep, and
heentered into his chamber, and wept there.
x His heart and inward parts were vehemently moved, as they commonly are upon occaſion of any exceflive patſion,of love, pity, grief, or joy, Oc. \
31 Andhe waſhed his face, and went out, and re- frained himſelf, and\faid, Ser on bread.
32 And they ſer gn for him by himſelf y,and tor them by themſelves,and for the Egyptians which did eat with him, by themſelves : becauſe che Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that i- an abomination
unto the Egyptians 2, :
y Partly becauſe the dignity of his place, and the cuſtom of Prin- ces required this ftate ; and partly for the reaſon here following. 2 Not ſo much fiom rheir pride and diſdain of other people,as from their ſuperſtition and idolatry ; partly becauſe they worthipped the Creatures which the Hebrews and others did commonly cat ; and partly becauſe of ſome peculiar Rites and Cuſtoms which they had 1n the dreifing and ore their diet, Whence Herozorus attirms, that the Egyptians would not uſe the pots nor knives of the Grecians about their food. Compare Gen: 46: 34. See there, Exod: 8: 26.
23 And they fat before him, the firit-born accord- ing to his birth-right, and the youngeſt according to his youth a ; and che men 6 marvelled c one at an 0-
ther.
a Being ſo placed either by Joſeph's appointment ; or rather by their own choice, and according to their cuſtom ; by which the elder, though the handmaidens children,took place of the younger, who by that order were taught what veneration they owe to the aged, and how great a ſin it 15, though very cuſtomary, in young men to deſpiſe rhoſe whom they ſhould reverence. 4 Not the Egyptians, but the H-brews, the men laſt ſpoken of, «c Either at the