Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”
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Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”
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And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
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And Joseph said unto them: 'What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I will indeed divine?'
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Passages linked to Genesis 44:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 3:13 Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
- Genesis 4:10 Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
- Genesis 21:26 Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”
- Genesis 39:8 But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
- Genesis 44:4-5 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good? Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’ ”
- Exodus 32:1 When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 44:15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed…
Gen 44:15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed [is] this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
Ver. 15. What deed is this that ye have done?] As Joseph here, so Christ sometimes impersonates an adversary, when he intends most love.
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Wot ye not that such a man as I, &c.] If that be true that some conceive of Joseph, that he, here and at Gen 44:5, made himself a soothsayer, he was certainly to blame. "The lip of excellency becometh not a fool," saith Solomon, but "much less do lying lips a prince." {Pro 17:7, marg.} That is, it is naught when wicked men will be using gracious words, to seem religious. But it is far worse, when good men will use the fashion of the wicked, that they may seem impious.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Joseph said unto them, what deed is this…
And Joseph said unto them, what deed is this ye have done?.... An action so wicked, base, and ungrateful, attended with such aggravated circumstances, that it can scarcely be said how bad a one it is, and may be well wondered at, that men who had received such favours could ever be guilty of; this he said, putting on a stern countenance, and seemingly in great anger and wrath:
wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine? either that he could divine himself, though not by the cup, of which here no mention is made, but in some other way used by the Egyptians; or that he had diviners with him, as Aben Ezra, with whom he could consult, to find out the person that took the cup; or surely they must needs think that such a man as he, who had such great knowledge of things, natural and political, and whose name was Zaphnathpaaneah, a revealer of secrets, would be able to search into and find out an affair of this kind; See Gill on Gen 41:45; and they might well conclude, that a man so sagacious and penetrating would easily conjecture who were the persons that took away his cup, even the strangers that had dined with him so lately, and therefore could never expect to go off with it.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The science of divining. He speaks of himself according…
The science of divining. He speaks of himself according to what he was esteemed in that kingdom. And, indeed, he being truly a prophet, knew more without comparison than any of the Egyptian sorcerers. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, Septuagint, and Chaldean, "knew ye not that a man like me would divine with certainty," and presently discover any fraud? (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. such a man as I] The Grand Vizier,…
15. such a man as I] The Grand Vizier, second only to Pharaoh (see Gen_44:18), married into the family of the Priest of On, and one “in whom the spirit of God is” (Gen_41:38).
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