Genesis:42-45
geneva@Genesis:42:1 @ Now when (note:)This story shows plainly that all things are governed by God's providence for the profit of his Church.(:note) Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye As men destitute of counsel. look one upon another?
geneva@Genesis:42:2 @ And he said, Behold, I haue heard that there is foode in Egypt, Get you downe thither, & bie vs foode thence, that we may liue and not die.
geneva@Genesis:42:3 @ So went Iosephs ten brethren downe to bye corne of the Egyptians.
geneva@Genesis:42:4 @ But Beniamin Iosephs brother woulde not Iaakob send with his brethren: for he saide, Least death should befall him.
geneva@Genesis:42:5 @ And the sonnes of Israel came to bye foode among them that came: for there was famine in the land of Canaan.
geneva@Genesis:42:6 @ Now Ioseph was gouerner of the land, who solde to all the people of the lande: then Iosephs brethren came, & bowed their face to the groud before him.
geneva@Genesis:42:7 @ And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but (note:)This concealing is not to be followed, nor any actions of the father's not approved by God's word.(:note) made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
geneva@Genesis:42:8 @ (Now Ioseph knewe his brethren, but they knew not him.
geneva@Genesis:42:9 @ And Ioseph remembred the dreames, which he dreamed of them) and he sayde vnto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the weaknesse of the land.
geneva@Genesis:42:10 @ But they sayde vnto him, Nay, my lorde, but to bye vitayle thy seruants are come.
geneva@Genesis:42:11 @ Wee are all one mans sonnes: wee meane truely, and thy seruants are no spies.
geneva@Genesis:42:12 @ But he saide vnto them, Nay, but yee are come to see the weakenes of the land.
geneva@Genesis:42:13 @ And they said, We thy seruants are twelue brethren, the sonnes of one man in the lande of Canaan: and beholde, the yongest is this day with our father, and one is not.
geneva@Genesis:42:14 @ Againe Ioseph sayde vnto them, This is it that I spake vnto you, saying, Ye are spies.
geneva@Genesis:42:15 @ Hereby ye shall be proved: (note:)The Egyptians who were idolaters, used to swear by their king's life: but God forbids swearing by anyone but him: yet Joseph dwelling among the wicked was corrupted by them.(:note) By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
geneva@Genesis:42:16 @ Send one of you which may fet your brother, & ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proued, whether there bee trueth in you: or els by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies.
geneva@Genesis:42:17 @ So he put them in warde three dayes.
geneva@Genesis:42:18 @ And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; [for] I (note:)And therefore am true and just.(:note) fear God:
geneva@Genesis:42:19 @ If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bounde in your prison house, and goe ye, carie foode for the famine of your houses:
geneva@Genesis:42:20 @ But bring your yonger brother vnto me, that your wordes may be tried, and that ye dye not: and they did so.
geneva@Genesis:42:21 @ And they said one to another, (note:)Affliction makes men acknowledge their faults, which otherwise they would conceal.(:note) We [are] verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
geneva@Genesis:42:22 @ And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his (note:)God will take vengeance on us, and measure us with our own measure.(:note) blood is required.
geneva@Genesis:42:23 @ (And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)
geneva@Genesis:42:24 @ And he turned himself about from them, and (note:)Though he acts harshly, yet his brotherly affection remained.(:note) wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
geneva@Genesis:42:25 @ So Ioseph commanded that they should fill their sackes with wheate, and put euery mans money againe in his sacke, and giue them vitaile for the iourney: and thus did he vnto them.
geneva@Genesis:42:26 @ And they layed their vitaile vpon their asses, and departed thence.
geneva@Genesis:42:27 @ And as one of them opened his sacke for to giue his asse prouender in the ynne, he espyed his money: for lo, it was in his sackes mouth.
geneva@Genesis:42:28 @ And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, [it is] even in my sack: and their heart failed [them], and they were (note:)Because their conscience accused them of their sin, they thought God had brought them trouble through the money.(:note) afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that] God hath done unto us?
geneva@Genesis:42:29 @ And they came vnto Iaakob their father vnto the lande of Canaan, and tolde him all that had befallen them, saying,
geneva@Genesis:42:30 @ The man, who is Lorde of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.
geneva@Genesis:42:31 @ And we sayd vnto him, We are true men, and are no spies.
geneva@Genesis:42:32 @ We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is not, and the yongest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
geneva@Genesis:42:33 @ Then the Lord of the countrey sayde vnto vs, Hereby shal I knowe if ye be true men: Leaue one of your brethren with me, and take foode for the famine of your houses and depart,
geneva@Genesis:42:34 @ And bring your yongest brother vnto me, that I may knowe that ye are no spies, but true men: so will I deliuer you your brother, and yee shall occupie in the land.
geneva@Genesis:42:35 @ And as they emptied their sacks, behold, euery mans bundel of money was in his sacke: and when they and their father sawe the bundels of their money, they were afrayde.
geneva@Genesis:42:36 @ And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved [of my children]: Joseph [is] not, and Simeon [is] not, and ye will take Benjamin [away]: all these things are against (note:)For they did not seem to be concerned or have any love for their brother which increased his sorrow: and partly as it appears he suspected them for Joseph.(:note) me.
geneva@Genesis:42:37 @ Then Reuben answered his father, saying, Slay my two sonnes, if I bring him not to thee againe: deliuer him to mine hand, and I will bring him to thee againe.
geneva@Genesis:42:38 @ But he sayd, My sonne shall not go downe with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if death come vnto him by the way which ye goe, then ye shall bring my gray head with sorow vnto the graue.
geneva@Genesis:43:1 @ And the (note:)This was a great temptation to Jacob to suffer such a great famine in the land where God had promised to bless him.(:note) famine [was] sore in the land.
geneva@Genesis:43:2 @ And when they had eaten vp the vitaile, which they had brought from Egypt, their father sayd vnto them, Turne againe, and bye vs a little foode.
geneva@Genesis:43:3 @ And Iudah answered him, saying, The man charged vs by an othe, saying, Neuer see my face, except your brother be with you.
geneva@Genesis:43:4 @ If thou wilt sende our brother with vs, we will goe downe, and bye thee foode:
geneva@Genesis:43:5 @ But if thou wilt not send him, we wil not go downe: for the man said vnto vs, Looke me not in the face, except your brother be with you.
geneva@Genesis:43:6 @ And Israel sayd, Wherefore delt ye so euill with me, as to tell the man, whether ye had yet a brother or no?
geneva@Genesis:43:7 @ And they answered, The man asked straitly of our selues and of our kinred, saying, Is your father yet aliue? haue ye any brother? And wee tolde him according to these wordes: could we knowe certainely that he would say, Bring your brother downe?
geneva@Genesis:43:8 @ Then sayde Iudah to Israel his father, Send the boy with mee, that we may rise and goe, and that we may liue and not dye, both we, and thou, and our children.
geneva@Genesis:43:9 @ I wil be suertie for him: of mine hand shalt thou require him. If I bring him not to thee, and set him before thee, then let me beare the blame for euer.
geneva@Genesis:43:10 @ For except we had made this tarying, doutlesse by this we had returned the second time.
geneva@Genesis:43:11 @ Then their father Israel sayd vnto them, If it must needes be so now, do thus: take of the best fruites of the lande in your vessels, and bring the man a present, a little rosen, & a little hony, spices and myrrhe, nuttes, and almondes:
geneva@Genesis:43:12 @ And take (note:)When we are in need or danger, God does not forbid us to use honest means to better our estate and condition.(:note) 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:
geneva@Genesis:43:13 @ Take also your brother and arise, and go againe to the man.
geneva@Genesis:43:14 @ And (note:)Our main trust should be in God, not in worldly means.(:note) God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be He speaks these words not so much in despair, but to make his sons more careful to return with their brother. bereaved [of my children], I am bereaved.
geneva@Genesis:43:15 @ Thus the men tooke this present, & tooke twise so much money in their hande with Beniamin, and rose vp, and went downe to Egypt and stoode before Ioseph.
geneva@Genesis:43:16 @ And whe Ioseph saw Beniamin with them, he sayde to his stewarde, Bring these men home and kill meate, and make ready: for the men shal eate with me at noone.
geneva@Genesis:43:17 @ And the man did as Ioseph bad, & brought the men vnto Iosephs house.
geneva@Genesis:43:18 @ And the men were (note:)So the judgment of God weighed on their consciences.(:note) afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
geneva@Genesis:43:19 @ Therefore came they to Iosephs stewarde, & communed with him at the doore of ye house.
geneva@Genesis:43:20 @ And said, Oh syr, we came in deede down hither at the first time to bye foode,
geneva@Genesis:43:21 @ And as wee came to an ynne and opened our sackes, behold, euery mans money was in his sackes mouth, euen our money in full weight, but we haue brought it againe in our handes.
geneva@Genesis:43:22 @ Also other money haue we brought in our handes to bye foode, but we cannot tell, who put our money in our sackes.
geneva@Genesis:43:23 @ And he said, Peace [be] to you, fear not: (note:)Despite the corruption of Egypt, Joseph taught his family to fear God.(:note) your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
geneva@Genesis:43:24 @ So the man led them into Iosephs house, & gaue them water to wash their feete, and gaue their asses prouender.
geneva@Genesis:43:25 @ And they made ready their present against Ioseph came at noone, (for they heard say, that they should eate bread there)
geneva@Genesis:43:26 @ When Ioseph came home, they brought the present into the house to him, which was in their handes, and bowed downe to the grounde before him.
geneva@Genesis:43:27 @ And he asked them of their prosperitie, and sayd, Is your father the olde man, of whome ye tolde me, in good health? is he yet aliue?
geneva@Genesis:43:28 @ Who answered, Thy seruant our father is in good health, he is yet aliue: and they bowed downe, and made obeysance.
geneva@Genesis:43:29 @ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his (note:)For only these two were born of Rachel.(:note) mother's son, and said, [Is] this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
geneva@Genesis:43:30 @ And Ioseph made haste (for his affection was inflamed towarde his brother, and sought where to weepe) and entred into his chamber, and wept there.
geneva@Genesis:43:31 @ Afterward he washed his face, & came out, and refrained himselfe, and sayd, Set on meate.
geneva@Genesis:43:32 @ And they (note:)To signify his dignity.(:note) set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that [is] an The nature of the superstitions is to condemn all others in respect to themselves. abomination unto the Egyptians.
geneva@Genesis:43:33 @ So they sate before him: the eldest according vnto his age, and the yongest according vnto his youth; the men marueiled among themselues.
geneva@Genesis:43:34 @ And he took [and sent] messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, (note:)Sometimes this word means «to be drunken», but here it means that they had enough, and drank of the best wine.(:note) and were merry with him.
geneva@Genesis:44:1 @ Afterward he commanded his steward, saying, Fill the mens sackes with foode, as much as they can carry, and put euery mans money in his sackes mouth.
geneva@Genesis:44:2 @ And (note:)We may not use this example to justify any unlawful practices, seeing God has commanded us to walk in simplicity.(:note) put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
geneva@Genesis:44:3 @ And in the morning the men were sent away, they, and their asses.
geneva@Genesis:44:4 @ And when they went out of the citie not farre off, Ioseph sayd to his stewarde, Vp, followe after the men: and when thou doest ouertake them, say vnto them, Wherefore haue ye rewarded euill for good?
geneva@Genesis:44:5 @ [Is] not this [it] in which my lord drinketh, and (note:)Because the people thought he could divine, he attributes to himself that knowledge: or else he pretends that he consults with soothsayers: which deceit is worthy to be reproved.(:note) whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
geneva@Genesis:44:6 @ And when he ouertooke them, he sayde those wordes vnto them.
geneva@Genesis:44:7 @ And they answered him, Wherefore sayeth my lorde such wordes? God forbid that thy seruants should do such a thing.
geneva@Genesis:44:8 @ Behold, the money which we found in our sackes mouthes, wee brought againe to thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steale out of thy lordes house siluer or golde?
geneva@Genesis:44:9 @ With whomesoeuer of thy seruants it bee found, let him dye, and we also will be my lordes bondmen.
geneva@Genesis:44:10 @ And he said, Now then let it be according vnto your wordes: he with whome it is found, shal be my seruant, and ye shalbe blamelesse.
geneva@Genesis:44:11 @ Then at once euery man tooke downe his sacke to the grounde, and euery one opened his sacke.
geneva@Genesis:44:12 @ And he searched, and began at the eldest and left at the yongest: and the cuppe was found in Beniamins sacke.
geneva@Genesis:44:13 @ Then they (note:)To show how greatly the thing displeased them and how sorry they were for it.(:note) rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
geneva@Genesis:44:14 @ So Iudah and his brethren came to Iosephs house (for he was yet there) and they fel before him on the ground.
geneva@Genesis:44:15 @ Then Ioseph sayd vnto them, What acte is this, which ye haue done? know ye not that such a man as I, can deuine and prophecie?
geneva@Genesis:44:16 @ And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? (note:)If we see no obvious cause for our affliction, let us look to the secret counsel of God, who punishes us justly for our sins.(:note) God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we [are] my lord's servants, both we, and [he] also with whom the cup is found.
geneva@Genesis:44:17 @ But he answered, God forbid, that I should doe so, but the man, with whome the cuppe is founde, he shalbe my seruant, and go ye in peace vnto your father.
geneva@Genesis:44:18 @ Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou [art] even (note:)Equal in authority or, next to the king.(:note) as Pharaoh.
geneva@Genesis:44:19 @ My Lord asked his seruants, saying, Haue ye a father, or a brother?
geneva@Genesis:44:20 @ And we answered my Lorde, We haue a father that is olde, and a young childe, which he begate in his age: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loueth him.
geneva@Genesis:44:21 @ Now thou saidest vnto thy seruants, Bring him vnto me, that I may set mine eye vpo him.
geneva@Genesis:44:22 @ And we answered my lord, The childe can not depart from his father: for if he leaue his father, his father would die.
geneva@Genesis:44:23 @ Then saydest thou vnto thy seruants, Except your yonger brother come downe with you, looke in my face no more.
geneva@Genesis:44:24 @ So when we came vnto thy seruant our father, and shewed him what my lord had sayd,
geneva@Genesis:44:25 @ And our father sayde vnto vs, Goe againe, bye vs a litle foode,
geneva@Genesis:44:26 @ Then we answered, We can not go downe: but if our yongest brother go with vs, then will we go downe: for we may not see the mans face, except our yongest brother be with vs.
geneva@Genesis:44:27 @ And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my (note:)Rachel bore to Jacob, Joseph and Benjamin.(:note) wife bare me two [sons]:
geneva@Genesis:44:28 @ And the one went out from me, and I said, Of a suretie he is torne in pieces, and I sawe him not since.
geneva@Genesis:44:29 @ And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, (note:)You will cause me to die for sorrow.(:note) ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
geneva@Genesis:44:30 @ Nowe therefore, when I come to thy seruant my father, & the childe be not with vs (seeing that his life dependeth on the childes life)
geneva@Genesis:44:31 @ Then when hee shall see that the childe is not come, he will die: so shall thy seruants bring the graye head of thy seruant our father with sorowe to the graue.
geneva@Genesis:44:32 @ Doubtlesse thy seruant became suertie for the childe to my father, and said, If I bring him not vnto thee againe, then I will beare the blame vnto my father for euer.
geneva@Genesis:44:33 @ Nowe therefore, I pray thee, let me thy seruant bide for the childe, as a seruant to my Lord, and let the childe go vp with his brethren.
geneva@Genesis:44:34 @ For (note:)Meaning, he would rather remain as their prisoner, than to return and see his father in sorrow.(:note) how shall I go up to my father, and the lad [be] not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
geneva@Genesis:45:1 @ Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, (note:)Not because he was ashamed of his kindred, but rather because he wanted to cover his brother's sin.(:note) Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
geneva@Genesis:45:2 @ And hee wept & cried, so that the Egyptians heard: the house of Pharaoh heard also.
geneva@Genesis:45:3 @ Then Ioseph sayde to his brethren, I am Ioseph: doeth my father yet liue? But his brethren coulde not answere him, for they were astonished at his presence.
geneva@Genesis:45:4 @ Againe, Ioseph sayde to his brethren, Come neere, I pray you, to mee; they came neere; he sayde, I am Ioseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
geneva@Genesis:45:5 @ Now therefore be not (note:)This example teaches that we must by all means comfort those who are truly ashamed and sorry for their sins.(:note) grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
geneva@Genesis:45:6 @ For nowe two yeeres of famine haue bene through ye land, and fiue yeeres are behind, wherein neither shalbe earing nor haruest.
geneva@Genesis:45:7 @ Wherefore God sent me before you to preserue your posteritie in this land, & to saue you aliue by a great deliuerance.
geneva@Genesis:45:8 @ So now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but (note:)Though God detests sin, yet he turns man's wickedness into his glory.(:note) God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
geneva@Genesis:45:9 @ Haste you & go vp to my father, & tel him, Thus saieth thy sonne Ioseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come downe to me, tary not.
geneva@Genesis:45:10 @ And thou shalt dwel in ye land of Goshen, and shalt be neere me, thou and thy children, and thy childrens children, and thy sheepe, and thy beastes, and all that thou hast.
geneva@Genesis:45:11 @ Also I will nourish thee there (for yet remaine fiue yeeres of famine) lest thou perish through pouertie, thou and thy houshold, and all that thou hast.
geneva@Genesis:45:12 @ And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that [it is] (note:)That is, that I speak in your own language and have no interpreter.(:note) my mouth that speaketh unto you.
geneva@Genesis:45:13 @ Therefore tel my father of al mine honour in Egypt, and of all that ye haue seene, and make haste, and bring my father hither.
geneva@Genesis:45:14 @ Then hee fell on his brother Beniamins necke, & wept, and Beniamin wept on his necke.
geneva@Genesis:45:15 @ Moreouer, he kissed all his brethren, and wept vpon them: and afterwarde his brethren talked with him.
geneva@Genesis:45:16 @ And the tidinges came vnto Pharaohs house, so that they said, Iosephs brethre are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his seruants.
geneva@Genesis:45:17 @ Then Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, Say to thy brethren, This doe ye, lade your beastes & depart, go to the land of Canaan,
geneva@Genesis:45:18 @ And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the (note:)The most plentiful ground.(:note) good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the The main fruits and conveniences. fat of the land.
geneva@Genesis:45:19 @ And I commaunde thee, Thus doe ye, take you charets out of the lande of Egypt for your children, and for your wiues, and bring your father and come.
geneva@Genesis:45:20 @ Also regarde not your stuffe: for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.
geneva@Genesis:45:21 @ And the children of Israel did so: & Ioseph gaue them charets according to the commandement of Pharaoh: hee gaue them vitaile also for the iourney.
geneva@Genesis:45:22 @ He gaue them all, none except, change of raiment: but vnto Beniamin he gaue three hundreth pieces of siluer, and fiue sutes of raiment.
geneva@Genesis:45:23 @ And vnto his father likewise hee sent ten hee asses laden with the best things of Egypt, and ten shee asses laden with wheate, and bread and meate for his father by the way.
geneva@Genesis:45:24 @ So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye (note:)Seeing he had remitted the fault done to him, he did not want them to accuse one another.(:note) fall not out by the way.
geneva@Genesis:45:25 @ Then they went vp from Egypt, and came vnto the land of Canaan vnto Iaakob their father,
geneva@Genesis:45:26 @ And told him, saying, Joseph [is] yet alive, and he [is] governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart (note:)As one between hope and fear.(:note) fainted, for he believed them not.
geneva@Genesis:45:27 @ And they told him al the words of Ioseph, which he had said vnto the: but when he saw the charets, which Ioseph had sent to cary him, then the spirit of Iaakob their father reuiued.
geneva@Genesis:45:28 @ And Israel sayde, I haue inough: Ioseph my sonne is yet aliue: I wil go and see him yer I die.
geneva@Genesis:46:1 @ And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and (note:)By this he signified both that he worshipped the true God, and that he kept in his heart the possession of that land from which need drove him at that time.(:note) offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
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