John Gill Commentary Genesis 42:7

"And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them; and he said unto them. Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food." — Genesis 42:7 (ASV)

And Joseph saw his brethren among those that came to buy corn, and when they prostrated themselves before him: and he knew them;

some of them being at man's estate, and their beards grown when they sold him, and their habits and dress now being much the same it was then, and by them he knew the younger: but made himself strange unto them; took no notice of them as his relations, but carried himself to them as he did to other foreigners, and yet more strangely: and spoke roughly unto them; or hard^F26 things or words; put on a stern countenance, and spoke with a high tone and in a rough surly manner to them:

and he said unto them, Where are you from? who are you? of what country are you? what is your business here? and they said, from the land of Canaan to buy food; which they could not get in Canaan, the famine being there so great.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F26: (twvq) "dura", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, Piscator, Schmidt.