Teks -- Genesis 42:2 (NET)

42:2 He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die.”

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Wesley: Gen 42:2 - Get you down thither

Masters of families must not only pray for daily bread for their families, but must with care and industry provide it.

TSK: Gen 42:2 - get you // that we

get you : Gen 43:2, Gen 43:4, Gen 45:9

that we : Gen 43:8; Psa 118:17; Isa 38:1; Mat 4:4

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Poole: Gen 42:2 - I have heard // Get you down // That we may live, and not die

I have heard: this word explains the word saw, Gen 42:1 .

Get you down for Egypt was lower than Canaan; whence, on the contrary, they are said to go up to Canaan, Gen 45:9 .

That we may live, and not die an emphatical repetition of the same thing, used here to make them more sensible of their danger.

Gill: Gen 42:2 - And he said, behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt // get ye down thither // and buy for us from thence, that we may live, and not die

And he said, behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt,.... This explains what is meant by the phrase he saw, one sense being put for another:

get ye down thither; as fast as you can without delay; Egypt lay lower than Canaan, and therefore they are bid to go down, as when they went from thence to Canaan they are said to go up, Gen 45:25,

and buy for us from thence, that we may live, and not die; which shows the famine was very pressing, since, unless they could buy corn from Egypt they could not live, but must die.