The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Caanan.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Genesis 42:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 12:10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
- Genesis 41:57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
- Acts 7:11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
- Genesis 26:1 There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
- Acts 11:28 One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 42:5 And the sons of Israel came to…
Gen 42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Ver. 5. And the sons of Israel came.] God could have fed them by a miracle, as he did Elijah by the ravens; and Israel in the wilderness, where he rained them down manna, and set the flint abroach; {a} and Merlin, hid in a hay mow in the massacre of Paris, by a hen that came thither, and laid an egg by him every morning. {b} But he worketh ordinarily by means, and will have them used, but not trusted to.
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{a} Dedit eis pluviam escatilem, et petram aquatilem. - Tertul.
{b} Dike’s Mich. and the Drag.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Joseph was the governor over the land,.... Not…
And Joseph was the governor over the land,.... Not the land of Canaan last mentioned, but the land of Egypt; under Pharaoh, he had the chief and sole authority, and especially in the affair of the corn, and the disposal of that:
and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: of Egypt, and also to all that came out of other lands; not that he in person could do all this, but by those that acted under him:
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and Joseph's brethren came; to Joseph to buy corn of him:
and bowed down themselves before him, with their faces to the earth; not only bowed the knee as the Egyptians did, but prostrated their whole bodies, stretching out their hands and feet, and touching the ground with their faces, as was the manner of the eastern countries, at least some of them; and so of Canaan; and thus did they submit themselves to him in the most humble manner, and thereby, though without their knowledge, fulfilled his dream of their sheaves making obeisance to his sheaf, Gen 37:7.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the famine was in the land of Canaan--The tropical…
the famine was in the land of Canaan--The tropical rains, which annually falling swell the Nile, are those of Palestine also; and their failure would produce the same disastrous effects in Canaan as in Egypt. Numerous caravans of its people, therefore, poured over the sandy desert of Suez, with their beasts of burden, for the purchase of corn; and among others, "the sons of Israel" were compelled to undertake a journey from which painful associations made them strongly averse.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. Among those that came — They mingled themselves…
5. Among those that came — They mingled themselves with the multitudes of some caravan, as if anxious to escape notice.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the sons of Israel came to buy corn…
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came literally, in the midst of the comers; not as being desirous to lose themselves in the multitudes, as if troubled by an alarming presentiment (Lange), which is forced and unnatural; but either as forming a part of a caravan of Canaanites (Lawson), or simply as arriving among ethers who came from the same necessity (Keil). For the famine was in the land of Canaan. The statements in this verse concerning the descent of Joseph"s brethren to Egypt, and the prevalence of the famine in the land of Canaan, both of which have already been sufficiently announced; (vide ver. 3 Gen_41:57 Gen_42:2) are neither useless repetitions nor proofs of different authorship, but simply the customary recapitulations which mark the commencement of a new paragraph or section of the history, viz., that in which Joseph"s first interview with his brethren is described (cf. "Quarry on Genesis," pp. 556, 557).
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain See note, (See Scofield "Gen 12:10").
famine
See note, (See Scofield "Gen 12:10").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 The sons of Israel came to buy among those…
The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came
The word "came" can be translated as "went." Also, the words "grain" and "Egypt" are understood. AT: "The sons of Israel went to by grain along with other people who went to Egypt" (See: Go and Come and Ellipsis)
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Now Joseph
"Now" marks a change from the story to background information about Joseph. (See: Background Information)
over the land
Here "land" refers to Egypt. AT: "over Egypt" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
all the people of the land
Here "land" includes Egypt and other surrounding countries. AT: "all the people of all the nations that came to buy grain" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
Joseph's brothers came
Here "came" can be translated as "went." (See: Go and Come)
bowed down to him with their faces to the ground
This is a way of showing respect. (See: Symbolic Action)
translationWords
Jacob
famine
Canaan
govern
bow
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