Teks -- Genesis 42:5 (NET)

42:5 So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Gen 42:5 - the famine was in the land of Canaan

The tropical rains, which annually falling swell the Nile, are those of Palestine also; and their failure would produce the same disastrous effects in Canaan as in Egypt. Numerous caravans of its people, therefore, poured over the sandy desert of Suez, with their beasts of burden, for the purchase of corn; and among others, "the sons of Israel" were compelled to undertake a journey from which painful associations made them strongly averse.

TSK: Gen 42:5 - for

for : Gen 12:10, Gen 26:1, Gen 41:57; Act 7:11, Act 11:28

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Gill: Gen 42:5 - And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came // for the famine was in the land of Canaan

And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came,.... Either among the Egyptians that came to buy, or among those who came from different countries, or rather particularly among the Canaanites, as the Targum of Jonathan; with these they might join upon the road, and go together in a body where the market for corn was:

for the famine was in the land of Canaan: which obliged the inhabitants of it as well as Jacob's family to seek for corn elsewhere, and confirms the sense of the preceding clause: this, though a very fruitful land, yet when God withheld a blessing from it, it became barren, as it had been before, Gen 12:10, and was to try the faith of those good men to whom God had given it, and to wean their hearts from being set upon it, and to put them upon seeking a better country, as they did.