If you really are honest men, choose one of your brothers to remain in prison. The rest of you may go home with grain for your starving families.

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

שׁבר sheber — “fragment, crumb, hence, grain.” בר bar — “pure,” “winnowed,” hence, “corn” (grain).

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John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

If you [be] true [men] As you say you are: let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Joseph was hard on his brothers, not from a spirit of revenge, but to bring them to repentance. Not seeing his brother Benjamin, he suspected that …