Genesis · WEB
Genesis
42
Bible textSynthetic voice (AI)
Genesis is not in WEB-C, so this chapter is shown from WEB (World English Bible (Protestant canon)).
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?” See also: Acts 7:12Joshua 7:102 Kings 8:3-4He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die.” See also: Genesis 43:8Matthew 4:4Isaiah 38:1Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. See also: Genesis 42:13Genesis 42:5But Jacob didn’t send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers; for he said, “Lest perhaps harm happen to him.” See also: Genesis 42:38Genesis 44:20-22Genesis 44:27-34The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan. See also: Acts 7:11Genesis 12:10Genesis 41:57Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth. See also: Genesis 45:26Genesis 19:1Genesis 44:14Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.” See also: Genesis 42:30Genesis 42:9-12Genesis 42:19-20Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him. See also: John 20:14Luke 24:16John 21:4Joseph 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.” See also: Genesis 37:5-9Exodus 32:351 Samuel 26:4They said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. See also: Genesis 37:8Genesis 44:9Genesis 27:37We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.” See also: Genesis 42:192 Corinthians 6:4Genesis 42:33-34He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!” They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.” See also: Genesis 37:30Genesis 42:32Genesis 44:20Joseph said to them, “It is like I told you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ See also: Job 13:24Job 19:11Genesis 42:9-11By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here. See also: 1 Samuel 17:55Genesis 42:16Genesis 42:12Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.” See also: Genesis 42:11He put them all together into custody for three days. See also: Genesis 40:4Genesis 40:7Hebrews 12:10Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God. See also: Leviticus 25:43Nehemiah 5:15Genesis 20:11If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses. See also: Jeremiah 37:15Isaiah 42:22Genesis 41:56Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won’t die.” They did so. See also: Genesis 42:34Genesis 43:5Genesis 44:23They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.” See also: Hosea 5:15Job 36:8-9Genesis 37:23-28Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.” See also: 2 Chronicles 24:22Psalms 9:121 Kings 2:32They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them. See also: John 16:13-142 Corinthians 5:20He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes. See also: Genesis 43:30Genesis 45:14-15Romans 12:15Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them. See also: 1 Peter 3:9Romans 12:17-21Matthew 5:44They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there. As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. See also: Exodus 4:24Luke 10:34Luke 2:7He said to his brothers, “My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!” Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?” See also: Lamentations 3:37Isaiah 45:7Leviticus 26:36They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying, “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. See also: Genesis 42:7We said to him, ‘We are honest men. We are no spies. See also: Genesis 42:11We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’ The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way. See also: Genesis 42:19-20Genesis 42:15Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’” See also: Genesis 34:10Genesis 34:211 Kings 10:15As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. See also: Genesis 43:21Genesis 43:12Genesis 43:15Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.” See also: Genesis 43:14Romans 8:31Matthew 14:31Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.” See also: Genesis 46:9Micah 6:7Genesis 43:9He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.” See also: Genesis 37:35Genesis 42:4Genesis 37:33
See also: Cross references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), derived in part from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Reflections
No reviewed reflections for this passage yet.
Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)16 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Genesis 42:1
Ver. 1. Careless. Heb. "gazing at one another," like idle people.
↑ 1Genesis 42:6
Ver. 6. To him. Conformably to the prophetic dreams. C. xxxvi .
7. 9. M. --- Joseph was like a prince or sultan, shallit, with sovereign authority. C.
↑ 6Genesis 42:8
Ver. 8. By them. Years and change of situation, had made such an alteration in him. God was pleased that Jacob should remain so long ignorant of his son's fate, that, by sorrow, he might do penance, and purify himself from every stain; and that he might not attempt to redeem Joseph, whose slavery was to be the source of so much good to his family. M. --- Joseph did not make himself known at first; in order to bring his brethren to a true sense of their duty, that they might obtain pardon for their sin. Thus pastors must sometimes treat their penitents with a degree of severity. S. Greg. hom. 22. Ezec. S. Aug. ser.
82. de Tem. W.
↑ 8Genesis 42:9
Ver. 9. You are spies. This he said by way of examining them, to see what they would answer. Ch. --- Aquila translates
"vagrants" going from place to place, as if to discover the weakest parts. Joseph was a person in authority. It was his duty to guard against invasion. He knew how his brethren had treated Sichem, and how they had behaved to himself; and though he might not suppose, that they had any evil design upon Egypt, yet he had a right to make them give an account of themselves. H. --- He wished also to extort from them a true account respecting Jacob and Benjamin. M.
↑ 9Genesis 42:15
Ver. 15. Health. This oath implies, that he is willing that even Pharao, whom he so much revered, should perish, if he did not execute what he said: (H.) or, as Pharao is now in health, so true it is you should not all depart, till your youngest brother come. C.
↑ 15Genesis 42:16
Ver. 16. Or else by the health of Pharao you are spies. That is, if these things you say be proved false, you are to be held for spies for your lying, and shall be treated as such. Joseph dealt in this manner with his brethren, to bring them by means of affliction to a sense of their former sin, and a sincere repentance for it.
↑ 16Genesis 42:18
Ver. 18. God. I shall do nothing contrary to justice or good faith, as I know I have a superior in heaven, to whom I must give an account. M.
↑ 18Genesis 42:21
Ver. 21. We deserve. Conscience upbraids. "Punishment opens the mouth, which sin had shut." S. Greg. M. --- They had sold Joseph about 22 years before! C.
↑ 21Genesis 42:22
Ver. 22. His blood. Ruben supposed his brother was dead, (v.
13,) and judging that Jacob would not let Benjamin come, he thought they must all perish. H.
↑ 22Genesis 42:23
Ver. 23. Interpreter, to keep them at a greater distance. It does not appear that the sons of Jacob were ignorant of the language of the country. C.
↑ 23Genesis 42:25
Ver. 25. Simeon. If he had joined himself to Ruben and Juda, who seemed inclined to protect Joseph, they might easily have prevented the cruel act, by overawing their younger brothers.
Hence he was most guilty. M. --- Presence. That they might learn to condole with an afflicted brother.
↑ 25Genesis 42:34
Ver. 34. And you may, &c. Joseph had said, (v. 20,) and you may not die, which they thus interpret. H.
↑ 34Genesis 42:35
Ver. 35. Astonished. One had before made the discovery, v. 28.
Now all find their purses among the corn, which renews their astonishment. C.
↑ 35Genesis 42:36
Ver. 36. Without. Through excess of grief, Jacob speaks with a degree of exaggeration; or he thought his children were now taken from him so fast, that he would soon have none left.
↑ 36Genesis 42:37
Ver. 37. Kill, &c. By this proposal, he meant to signify his utmost care and zeal to bring back young Benjamin safe to his father.
↑ 37Genesis 42:38
Ver. 38. Alone: the son of my beloved Rachel. H. --- To hell.
That is, to that place where the souls then remained, as above, chap. xxxvii. ver. 35. (Ch.) though with respect to his grey hairs, and body, it may signify the grave. H.
↑ 38License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses