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He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
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A Strategic Accusation
Commentators agree that Joseph's accusation was not genuine paranoia but a deliberate strategy. He repeated the charge of being spies to pressure his brothers into revealing information about his father and Benjamin, and to begin a process that would ultimately lead them to repentance.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
שׁבר sheber — “fragment, crumb, hence, grain.” בר bar — “pure,” “winnowed,” hence, “corn” (grain).
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said to them, nay This argument will not do, I am not to be put off with such words as these; if you can prod…
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 …
