Teks -- Genesis 42:13 (NET)

42:13 They replied, “Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive.”

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JFB: Gen 42:9-14 - Ye are spies

This is a suspicion entertained regarding strangers in all Eastern countries down to the present day. Joseph, however, who was well aware that his brethren were not spies, has been charged with cruel dissimulation, with a deliberate violation of what he knew to be the truth, in imputing to them such a character. But it must be remembered that he was sustaining the part of a ruler; and, in fact, acting on the very principle sanctioned by many of the sacred writers, and our Lord Himself, who spoke parables (fictitious stories) to promote a good end.

Clarke: Gen 42:13 - One is not

One is not - An elliptical sentence, One is not alive.

TSK: Gen 42:13 - Thy servants // one is not

Thy servants : Gen 42:11, Gen 42:32, Gen 29:32-35, 30:6-24, Gen 35:16-26, Gen 43:7, 46:8-27; Exo 1:2-5; Num. 1:1-54, 10:1-36, 26:1-65, 34:1-29; 1Chr. 2:1-8:40

one is not : Gen 42:36, Gen 42:38, Gen 37:30, Gen 44:20, Gen 44:28, Gen 45:26; Jer 31:15; Lam 5:7; Mat 2:16, Mat 2:18

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Poole: Gen 42:13

i.e. Is dead, as that phrase often signifies both in Scripture, as Gen 37:30 44:20 Jer 31:15 Mat 2:17,18 , and in other authors, as Homer, Euripides, &c. They concluded with great probability that he was dead, Gen 44:20 , because for twenty years together they had heard nothing, either of him or from him; which may seem strange, considering the nearness of Egypt and Canaan: but this came to pass partly from his own long imprisonment, and afterwards from his great and high employment; partly, from his lothness to bring so much mischief to his father and brethren, as the discovery of his case might have produced; and principally, from the overruling providence of God, which for its own glorious design disposed of Joseph’ s mind and affairs, so that he either did not send to his father’ s house, or that the messages were intercepted, there being not then those conveniencies for mutual correspondencies which now there are. And it is not improbable that Joseph might be further acquainted with the mind of God in this matter by dreams, which may seem to have been familiarly afforded to him, together with the interpretation of them. See Gen 40:8 41:16 .

Gill: Gen 42:13 - And they said, thy servants are twelve brethren // the sons of one man in the land of Canaan // and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father // and one is not

And they said, thy servants are twelve brethren,.... Or rather, "were twelve", since one afterwards is said not to be:

the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; of Jacob, who dwelt there; this is said with the same view as before, to show the improbability of their being spies:

and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father: meaning Benjamin, whom Joseph was eager to hear of, and no doubt was glad to hear he was alive, and his father also, and that they were both together in the land of Canaan:

and one is not; is not in the land of the living, is dead; for so they thought Joseph was, who is the person intended, as appears from what both Reuben and Judah afterwards say, Gen 42:22; and yet he was before them, and was the person they were speaking to: this must be very striking and affecting to Joseph, who knew full well they meant himself.