Genesis 44:13

Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
rent	וַֽיִּקְרְע֖וּ vai.yik.re.'U	H7167	to rend · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
clothes	שִׂמְלֹתָ֑ם sim.lo.Tam	H8071	a dress · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
laded	וַֽיַּעֲמֹס֙ vai.ya.'a.Mos	H6006	to load · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
man	אִ֣ישׁ 'ish	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular absolute
ass	חֲמֹר֔וֹ cha.mo.Ro	H2543	a male ass (from its dun red) · noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
returned	וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ vai.ya.Shu.vu	H7725	to turn back (hence · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
city	הָעִֽירָה ha.'I.rah	H5892	a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the wi… · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute + directional suffix

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

2 Samuel 1:11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
Genesis 37:29-34 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
Numbers 14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
2 Samuel 1:2 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: an…
2 Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 44:1-17

Joseph heaps further kindnesses upon his brethren, fills their sacks, returns their money, and sends them away full of gladness; but he also exercises them with further trials. Our God thus humbles those whom he loves and loads with benefits. Joseph ordered his steward to put a fine silver cup which he had (and which, it is likely, was used at his table when they dined with him) into Benjamin's sack's mouth, that it might seem as if he had stolen it from the table, and put it here himself, after his corn was delivered to him. If Benjamin had stolen it, it had been the basest piece of dishonesty and ingratitude that could be and if Joseph, by ordering it to be there, had designed really to ta…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 44:6

he overtook them, and he spake . . . these words--The steward's words must have come upon them like a thunderbolt, and one of their most predominant feelings must have been the humiliating and galling sense of being made so often objects of suspicion. Protesting their innocence, they invited a search. The challenge was accepted [Gen 44:10-11]. Beginning with the eldest, every sack was examined, and the cup being found in Benjamin's [Gen 44:12], they all returned in an indescribable agony of mind to the house of the governor [Gen 44:13], throwing themselves at his feet [Gen 44:14], with the remarkable confession, "God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants" [Gen 44:16].

Adam Clarke on Genesis 44:5

Whereby - he divineth? - Divination by cups has been from time immemorial prevalent among the Asiatics; and for want of knowing this, commentators have spent a profusion of learned labor upon these words, in order to reduce them to that kind of meaning which would at once be consistent with the scope and design of the history, and save Joseph from the impeachment of sorcery and divination. I take the word נחש nachash here in its general acceptation of to view attentively, to inquire. Now there has been in the east a tradition, the commencement of which is lost in immemorial time, that there was a Cup, which had passed successively into the hands of different potentates, which possessed the s…

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Dictionary and topics

Cup — A wine-cup (Gen. 40:11, 21), various forms of which are found on Assyrian and Egyptian monuments. All Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold (1 Kings 10: 21). The cups mentioned in the New Testament…
Mourning — One marked feature of Oriental mourning is what may be called its studies publicity and the careful observance of the prescribed ceremonies. (Genesis 23:2; Job 1:20; 2:12)
Mourning · .Ripping the garments — .Ripping the garments
Rending · .Of garments, an outward sign of affliction — .Of garments, an outward sign of affliction

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Genesis 44:13

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 44:1-17

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 44:6

Adam Clarke on Genesis 44:5

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Genesis 44:13

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 44:1-17

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 44:6

Adam Clarke on Genesis 44:5

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Genesis 44:13

John Calvin on Genesis 44:7-15

Keil & Delitzsch on Genesis 44:11-13

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 44:13

Rashi on Genesis 44:13