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Joseph`s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
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A Journey of Divine Irony
Commentators highlight the profound irony in this verse. The text deliberately calls the men "Joseph's ten brethren," not just "Jacob's sons," to emphasize that the very brothers who sold Joseph into slavery are now unknowingly going to him to beg for life-saving grain. This journey begins the fulfillment of Joseph's prophetic dreams.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
שׁבר sheber — “fragment, crumb, hence, grain.” בר bar — “pure,” “winnowed,” hence, “corn” (grain).
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19th Century
Anglican
Joseph’s ten brothers. — Either their cattle and households had already been greatly reduced by the deaths caused by the famine, o…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt . ] They obeyed their father's orders, and immediately set …
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Jacob saw the grain his neighbors had bought in Egypt and brought home. It is a spur to exertion to see others supplied.
Should others get f…
