And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these words.
And he overtaketh them, and speaketh unto them these words,
And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these words.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
The verses this one reaches1
Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
Voices1
And he overtook them,.... Their asses being laden with corn could not travel very fast, and he and his attendants being mounted on swift horses: and he spake unto them these same words; that Joseph had ordered him to say, and so what follows particularly, Gen 44:10.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
