Genesis 42:34
and bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that ye are no spies, but that ye are TRUE men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and ye shall trade in the land.
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Genesis 20:15And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee. Dwell where it pleases thee.
Genesis 34:21These men are peaceable with us, therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade in it, for, behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
Genesis 42:20and bring your youngest brother to me. So shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
Ezekiel 17:4He cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of merchandise. He set it in a city of merchants.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:30-38
The Report Made to Jacob. ( b. c. 1706.) 29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying, 30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. 31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies: 32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. 33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that… Read the whole commentary →