דבשׁ debash — “honey,” from the bee, or syrup from the juice of the grape. בטנים boṭen — “pistachio nuts.” שׁקד shâqêd —…

The man asked us straitly. — In Genesis 42:13, they appear rather as volunteering a statement of their family relations than as ha…

And the famine was sore in the land. This chapter records the second journey of Jacob's sons into Egypt, after their former supply of prov…

And the famine [was] sore in the land .
] In the land of Canaan; it increased yet more and more: this is observed fo…

Jacob urges his sons to go and buy a little food; now, in this time of scarcity, a little must be enough. Judah urges that Benjamin should go with …