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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 42:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, etc.] He proposes that one of them might be sent by them to their father’s house, and bring, Benjamin down to Egypt: and ye shall be kept in prison; the rest of them till he came: that your words may be proved, whether [there be any] truth in you; by this it would be seen whether they were men of truth and honesty or not; and should their brother be brought they would appear to be good men and true: or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely ye [are] spies; should not their brother they spoke of be produced, it would be a plain case that they were not the honest men they pretended to be, nor did they come merely to buy corn, but had an ill intention.
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