Genesis 43
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43 13 Jacob suffereth Benjamin to depart with his children. 14 Simeon is delivered out of prison. 30 Joseph goeth aside and weepeth.
1 Now great [a]famine was in the land.
2 And when they had eaten up the vittles, which they had brought from Egypt, their father said unto them, Turn again and buy us a little food.
3 And Judah answered him, saying, The man charged us by an oath, saying, (A)Never see my face, except your brother be with you.
4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down, and buy thee food.
5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, (B)Look me not in the face, except your brother be with you.
6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so evil with me, as to tell the man, whether ye had yet a brother or no?
7 And they answered, The man asked straightly of [b]ourselves and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye any brother? And we told him according to [c]these words: could we know certainly that he would say, Bring your brother down?
8 Then said Judah to Israel his father, Send the boy with me, that we may rise and go, and that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and our children.
9 I will be surety for him: of mine hand shalt thou require him. (C)If I bring him not to thee, and set him before thee, [d]then let me bear the blame forever.
10 For except we had made this tarrying, doubtless by this we had returned the second time.
11 Then their father Israel said unto them, If it must needs be so now, do thus: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and bring the man a present, a little rosin, and a little honey, [e]spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
12 And take [f]double money in your hand, and the money, that was brought again in your sacks’ mouths carry it again in your hand, lest it were some oversight.
13 Take also your brother and arise, and go again to the man.
14 And [g]God Almighty give you mercy in the sight of the man, that he may deliver you your other brother, and Benjamin: but I shall be [h]robbed of my child, as I have been.
15 Thus the men took this present, and took twice so much money in their hand with Benjamin, and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said [i]to his steward, Bring these men home and kill meat, and make ready: for the men shall eat with me at noon.
17 And the men did as Joseph bade, and brought the men unto Joseph’s house.
18 Now when the men were brought into Joseph’s house, they were [j]afraid, and said, Because of the money, that came in our sack’s mouths at the first time, are we brought, that he may [k]pick a quarrel against us, and [l]lay something to our charge, and bring us in bondage and our asses.
19 Therefore came they to Joseph’s steward, and communed with him at the door of his house,
20 And said, O sir, (D)we came indeed down hither at the first time to buy food,
21 And as we came to an Inn and opened our sacks, behold, every man’s money was in his sack’s mouth, even our money in full weight, but we have brought it in our hands.
22 Also other money have we brought in our hands to buy food, but we cannot tell, who put our money in our sacks.
23 And he said, [m]Peace be to you, fear not: [n]your God, and the God of your father hath given you that treasure in your sacks, I had your money: and he brought forth Simeon to them.
24 So the man led them into Joseph’s house, and gave them water to wash their feet, and gave their asses provender.
25 And they made ready their present against Joseph came at noon, (for they heard say, that they should eat bread there.)
26 When Joseph came home, they brought the present into the house to him, which was in their hands, and bowed down to the ground before him.
27 And he asked them of their [o]prosperity, and said, Is your father the old man, of whom ye told me, in good health? is he yet alive?
28 Who answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive: and they bowed down, and made obeisance.
29 And he lifting up his eyes, beheld his brother Benjamin, his [p]mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother of whom ye told me? And he said, God be merciful unto thee, my son.
30 And Joseph made haste (for his [q]affection was inflamed toward his brother, and sought where to weep) and entered into his chamber and wept there.
31 Afterward he washed his face, and came out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on [r]meat.
32 And they [s]prepared for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews: for that was an [t]abomination unto the Egyptians.
33 So they sat before him: the eldest according unto his age, and the youngest according unto his youth: and the men marveled among themselves.
34 And they took meats from before him, and sent to them: but Benjamin’s meat was five times so much as any of theirs: and they drank, [u]and had of the best drink with him.
Footnotes
- Genesis 43:1 This was a great tentation to Jacob to suffer so great famine in that land where God had promised to bless him.
- Genesis 43:7 Or, of our estate and condition.
- Genesis 43:7 Hebrew, to the mouth of these words: that is, that thing which he asked us.
- Genesis 43:9 Hebrew, I will sin to thee.
- Genesis 43:11 Or, sweet smells.
- Genesis 43:12 When we are in necessity or danger, God forbiddeth not to use all honest means to better our estate and condition.
- Genesis 43:14 Our chief trust ought to be in God, and not in worldly means.
- Genesis 43:14 He speaketh these words not so much of despair, as to make his sons more careful to bring again their brother.
- Genesis 43:16 Or, to the ruler of his house.
- Genesis 43:18 So the judgment of God pressed their conscience.
- Genesis 43:18 Hebrew, roll himself upon us.
- Genesis 43:18 Hebrew, cast himself upon us.
- Genesis 43:23 Or, you are well.
- Genesis 43:23 Notwithstanding the corruptions of Egypt, yet Joseph taught his family to fear God.
- Genesis 43:27 Hebrew, peace.
- Genesis 43:29 For they two only were born of Rachel.
- Genesis 43:30 Hebrew, bowels.
- Genesis 43:31 Hebrew, bread.
- Genesis 43:32 To signify his dignity.
- Genesis 43:32 The nature of the superstitious is to condemn all others in respect of themselves.
- Genesis 43:34 Sometimes this word signifieth to be drunken, but here it is meant, that they had enough, and drank of the best wine.
Genesis 44
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44 15 Joseph accuseth his brother of theft. 33 Judah offereth himself to be servant for Benjamin.
1 Afterward he commanded his steward, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
2 And [a]put my cup, I mean, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the commandment that Joseph gave him.
3 And in the [b]morning the men were sent away, they, and their asses.
4 And when they went out of the city not far off, Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men: and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
5 Is not that the cup wherein my lord drinketh? [c]and in the which he doth divine and prophesy? ye have done evil in so doing.
6 ¶ And when he overtook them, he said these words unto them.
7 And they answered him, Wherefore saith my lord such words? God forbid that thy servants should do such a thing.
8 Behold, the money which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?
9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen.
10 And he said, Now then let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found, shall be my servant, and ye shall be [d]blameless.
11 Then at once every man took down his sack to the ground, and everyone opened his sack.
12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
13 Then they [e]rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and went again into the city.
14 ¶ So Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s house (for he was yet there) and they fell before him on the ground.
15 Then Joseph said unto them, What act is this, which ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I, can divine and prophesy?
16 Then said Judah, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? and how can we justify ourselves? [f]God hath found out the wickedness of thy servants: behold, we are servants to my lord, both we, and he, with whom the cup is found.
17 But he answered, God forbid, that I should do so, but the man, with whom the cup is found, he shall be my servant, and go ye in peace unto your father.
18 ¶ Then Judah drew near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant now speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thy wrath be kindled against thy servant: for thou art even [g]as Pharaoh.
19 My lord asked his servants, saying, (A)Have ye a father, or a brother?
20 And we answered my lord, We have a father that is old, and a young [h]child, which he begat in his age: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
21 Now thou saidest unto thy servants, Bring him unto me, that I may [i]set mine eye upon him.
22 And we answered my lord, The child cannot depart his father: for if he leave his father, his father would die.
23 Then saidest thou unto thy servants, (B)Except your younger brother come down with you, look in my face no more.
24 So when we came unto thy servant our father, and showed him what my lord had said,
25 And our father said unto us, Go again, buy us a little food.
26 Then we answered, We cannot go down, but if our youngest brother [j]go with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us.
27 Then thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my [k]wife bare me two sons.
28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Of a surety he is torn in (C)pieces, and I saw him not since.
29 Now ye take this also away from me: if death take him, then [l]ye shall bring my gray head in sorrow to the grave.
30 Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, and the child be not with us (seeing that his [m]life dependeth on the child’s life.)
31 Then when he shall see that the child is not come, he will die: so shall thy servants bring down the gray head of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
32 Doubtless thy servant became surety for the child to my father, and, (D)If I bring him not unto thee again, then I will bear the blame unto my father forever.
33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let me thy servant abide for the child, as a servant to my lord, and let the child go up with his brethren.
34 For [n]how can I go up to my father: if the child be not with me, unless I would see the evil that shall come on my father.
Footnotes
- Genesis 44:2 We may not by this example use any unlawful practices, seeing God hath commanded us to walk in simplicity.
- Genesis 44:3 Hebrew, the morning shone.
- Genesis 44:5 Because the people thought he could divine, he attributeth to himself that knowledge: or else he feigneth that he consulted with soothsayers for it: Which simulation is worthy to be reproved.
- Genesis 44:10 Hebrew, innocent.
- Genesis 44:13 To signify how greatly the thing displeased them, and how sorry they were for it.
- Genesis 44:16 If we see no evident cause of our affliction, let us look to the secret counsel of God, who punisheth us justly for our sins.
- Genesis 44:18 Equal in authority or, next unto the king.
- Genesis 44:20 Hebrew, child of his old age.
- Genesis 44:21 Or, that I may see him.
- Genesis 44:26 Hebrew, be with us.
- Genesis 44:27 Rachel bare to Jacob, Joseph and Benjamin.
- Genesis 44:29 Ye shall cause me to die for sorrow.
- Genesis 44:30 Hebrew, his soul is bound to his soul.
- Genesis 44:34 Meaning, he had rather remain their prisoner, than to return and see his father in heaviness.
Matthew 22
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22 2 The parable of the marriage. 9 The calling of the Gentiles. 11 The wedding garments, faith. 16 Of Caesar’s tribute. 23 They question with Christ touching the resurrection. 32 God is of the living. 36 The greatest commandment. 37 To love God. 39 To love our neighbor. 42 Jesus reasoneth with the Pharisees touching the Messiah.
1 Then (A)[a]Jesus answered, and spake unto them again in parables, saying,
2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which married his son,
3 And sent forth his servants, to call them that were bidden to the wedding, but they would not come.
4 Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: mine oxen and my fatlings are [b]killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, and another about his merchandise.
6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them sharply, and slew them.
7 [c]But when the king heard it, he was wroth, and sent forth his warriors, and destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their city.
8 Then said he to his servants, Truly the [d]wedding is prepared: but they which were bidden, were not worthy.
9 [e]Go ye therefore out into the highways, and as many as ye find, bid them to the marriage.
10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all that ever they found, both good and [f]bad: so the wedding was furnished with guests.
11 [g]Then the king came in, to see the guests, and saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment.
12 And he said unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, and hast not on a wedding garment? And he was [h]speechless.
13 Then said the king to the [i]servants, Bind him hand and foot: take him away, and cast him into utter darkness: (B)there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14 (C)For many are called, but few chosen.
15 ¶ (D)Then went the Pharisees and took counsel how they might [j]tangle him in talk.
16 And they sent unto him their disciples with the [k]Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God [l]truly, neither carest for any man: for thou considerest not the [m]person of men.
17 [n]Tell us therefore, how thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give [o]tribute unto Caesar, or not?
18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
19 Show me the tribute money. And they brought him a [p]penny.
20 And he said unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
21 They said unto him, Caesar’s. Then said he unto them, (E)Give therefore to Caesar, the things which are Caesar’s, and give unto God, those things which are God’s.
22 And when they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went their way.
23 ¶ (F)[q]The same day the Sadducees came to him, (which say that there is no resurrection) and asked him,
24 Saying, Master, (G)Moses said, If a man die, having no [r]children, his brother shall marry his wife by the right of alliance, and raise up seed unto his brother.
25 Now therefore were with us seven brethren, and the first married a wife, and deceased: and having no issue, left his wife unto his brother.
26 Likewise also the second, and the third, unto the seventh.
27 And last of all the woman died also.
28 Therefore in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for all had her.
29 Then Jesus answered, and said unto them, Ye are deceived, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
30 For in the resurrection they neither marry wives, nor wives are bestowed in marriage, but are as the [s]Angels of God in heaven.
31 And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read what is spoken unto you of God, saying,
32 (H)I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
33 And when the multitude heard it, they were astonied at his doctrine.
34 ¶ (I)[t]But when the Pharisees had heard, that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they assembled together.
35 And [u]one of them, which was an expounder of the Law, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the Law?
37 Jesus said to him, (J)Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy [v]soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and the great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto this, (K)Thou shalt love thy [w]neighbor as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hangeth the whole Law and the Prophets.
41 ¶(L)[x]While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? [y]whose son is he? They said unto him, David’s.
43 He said unto them, How then doth David in spirit, call him Lord, saying,
44 (M)The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
45 If then David call him Lord, how is he his son?
46 And none could answer him a word, neither durst any from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Footnotes
- Matthew 22:1 Not all of the whole company of them that are called by the voice of the Gospel are the true Church before God: for the most part of them had rather follow the commodities of this life: and some do most cruelly persecute those that call them: but they are the true Church, which obey when they are called, such as for the most part they are, whom the world despiseth.
- Matthew 22:4 The word here used is commonly used in sacrifices, and is by translation used for other feasts also: for feasts and banquets were wont to be begun with sacrifices.
- Matthew 22:7 A dreadful destruction of them that contemn Christ.
- Matthew 22:8 The marriage feast.
- Matthew 22:9 God doth first call us, when we think nothing of it.
- Matthew 22:10 The general calling offereth the Gospel to all men: but their life is examined that enter in.
- Matthew 22:11 In the small number which come at the calling, there are some castaways which do not confirm their faith with newness of life.
- Matthew 22:12 Word for word, haltered, that is to say, he held his peace, as though he had had a bridle or an halter about his neck.
- Matthew 22:13 To them that served the guests.
- Matthew 22:15 Snare him in his words or talk. The Greek word is derived of snares which hunters lay.
- Matthew 22:16 They which with Herod made a new religion patched together of the heathenish and the Jewish religion.
- Matthew 22:16 Truly and sincerely.
- Matthew 22:16 Thou art not moved with any appearance and outward show.
- Matthew 22:17 The Christians must obey their Magistrates, although they be wicked and extortioners, but so far forth as the authority that God hath over us may remain safe unto him, and his honor be not diminished.
- Matthew 22:17 The word that is used here, signifieth a valuing and rating of men’s substance, according to the proportion whereof they paid tribute in those provinces which were subject to tribute, and it is here taken for the tribute itself.
- Matthew 22:19 Before Matt. 17:24 there is mention made of a didrachma, and here, of a penny, whereas a didrachma is more by the seventh part than a penny: so that there seemeth to be a jar in these two places: but they may easily be recorded thus: The penny was paid to the Romans for tribute according to the proportion they were rated at, the drachma was paid of everyone to the Temple, which also the Romans took to themselves when they had subdued Judea.
- Matthew 22:23 Christ voucheth the resurrection of the flesh against the Sadducees.
- Matthew 22:24 Under which name are daughters also comprehended, but yet as touching the family and name of a man, because he that left daughters was in no better case, than if he had left no children at all, (for they were not reckoned in the family) by the name of children are Sons understood.
- Matthew 22:30 He saith not that they shall be without bodies, for then they should not be men anymore, but they shall be as Angels, for they shall neither marry nor be married.
- Matthew 22:34 The Gospel doth not abolish the precepts of the Law, but doth rather confirm them.
- Matthew 22:35 A scribe, so saith Mark 12:28, now what a scribe is, see Matt. 2:4.
- Matthew 22:37 The Hebrew text readeth, Deut. 6:5, with thine heart, soul, and strength: and in Mark 12:30 and Luke 10:27 we read with soul, heart, strength and thought.
- Matthew 22:39 Another man.
- Matthew 22:41 Christ proveth manifestly that he is David’s son according to the flesh, but otherwise, David’s Lord, and very God.
- Matthew 22:42 Or, whose stock or family: for the Hebrews call a man’s posterity, sons.
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