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Genesis 43:12

The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 43:12

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And take double money (literally, money of a second, i.e. of the same, amount; not twice as much as the first time, but simply as much as the first time) in your hand; and the money that was brought again (or returned) in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight (literally, a something caused to wander, a mistake, from a root signifying to go astray).

Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: and God Almighty—El Shaddai, the covenant God of Abraham (), and of Jacob himself ()—give you mercy (literally, bowels, hence very tender affection, the inward parts being regarded as the seat of the emotions) before the man, that he may send away—literally, and he shall send with you {Kalisch), or for you (Keil)—your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved—literally, and if I am bereaved, I am bereaved, an expression of the patriarch's acquiescence in the Divine will (cf. ; ).

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