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The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
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A Shared Crisis
Commentators note that the phrase "among those that came" signifies that Jacob's sons were not traveling alone. The famine was so severe and widespread in Canaan that they joined a larger group of people, likely their neighbors, all making the same desperate journey to Egypt for survival.
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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 the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that came Either among the Egyptians that came to buy, or among tho…
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…
