We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’
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We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’
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We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
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We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, cannot be found.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 42:32 We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our…
Gen 42:32 We [be] twelve brethren, sons of our father; one [is] not, and the youngest [is] this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
Ver. 32. See Gen 42:9; Gen 42:11; Gen 42:13; Gen 42:19, &c
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Jacob their father said unto them, me have…
And Jacob their father said unto them, me have ye bereaved of my children,.... Which looks as if Jacob suspected that they had either sold or slain Joseph, and had done one or the other by Simeon:
Joseph is not, and Simeon is not: neither of them were with him, and both were given up by him as dead, or, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it,"of Joseph ye have said an evil beast hath devoured him; and Simeon, ye say, the king of the country hath bound him;''as for Joseph he knew not but he was dead, he feared he was; and as for Simeon, he being in the hands of so rough a man as they had represented the lord of the land to be, and especially as his release depended upon sending Benjamin, which he was determined at present not to do; he was reckoned by him as a lost or dead man:
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and ye will take Benjamin away; they were desirous of it, and what their design was he could not tell; he seems to have a strong suspicion that it was not good:
all these things are against me; against his will, his peace, and comfort, and happiness, though they were all working and would work as they did for his good, and for the good of his family, for the preservation of it during the seven years of famine; or are "upon me" (f), as heavy burdens, too heavy for him to bear, ready to sink him down to the earth.
(f) "super me", Montanus, Schmidt; "vel. in me", V. L. Vatablus.
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