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Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."
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God's Unstoppable Plan
Commentators emphasize that this moment is the dramatic fulfillment of Joseph's youthful dreams. John Calvin notes that the very actions the brothers took to thwart the dreams—selling Joseph into Egypt—became the means by which God brought them to pass. This serves as a powerful reminder that God's sovereign purposes cannot be overturned by human schemes.
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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
Ye are spies. —This is the suspicion under which every traveller labours in the East; but in those days the whole Semitic…
16th Century
Protestant
And Joseph remembered the dreams. When the boy Joseph had spoken of receiving homage, the absurdity of the thing drove his brothers to wic…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them Their bowing and prostrating themselves before him brought…
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 …
