Genesis 42:34
and bring your young brother to me, and I know that you [are] not spies, but you [are] right men; I give your brother to you, and you trade with the land.”
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Genesis 20:15and Abimelech says, “Behold, my land [is] before you, where it is good in your eyes, dwell”;
Genesis 34:21“These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade [in] it; and the land, behold, [is] wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them.
Genesis 42:20and you bring your young brother to me, and your words are established, and you do not die”; and they do so.
Ezekiel 17:4He has cropped the top of its tender twigs, || And he brings it to the land of Canaan. He has placed 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 →