Genesis 42:26
in Genesis 42and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they laded their asses with their grain, and departed thence.
KJV
And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
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This verse in Genesis 42
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money--This private generosity was not an infringement of his duty--a defrauding of the revenue. He would have a discretionary power--he was daily enriching the king's exchequer--and he might have paid the sum from his own purse.
This site's exposition
to return each man’s silver to his sack
on Genesis 42:25-26
They came to buy, and they leave with the silver in their sacks. Matthew Henry read the returned silver as a picture of Christ, who gives out supplies without money and without price. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note the grain was Joseph's, so returning the silver cost the treasury nothing.
This site's exposition
they loaded the grain on their donkeys
Nine men leave where ten had come, and the gap in the line is Simeon's. The silver rides home in the sacks unseen. It comes to light at the first night's stop in verse 27.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And they laded their asses with the corn,.... Cattle very fit to carry burdens, and no doubt they had each of them one at least: and departed thence; from the place where Joseph was, and from the land of Egypt.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
They laded their asses - Amounting, no doubt, to several scores, if not hundreds, else they could not have brought a sufficiency of corn for the support of so large a family as that of Jacob.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ | vaiyisu | and they lifted | H5375 → | 656 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שִׁבְרָ֖ם | shivram | grain their | H7668 → | 9 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| חֲמֹרֵיהֶ֑ם | chamoreihem | donkeys their | H2543 → | 96 times |
| וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ | vaiyelekhu | and they went | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| מִשָּֽׁם׃ | misham | from there | H8033 → | 834 times |
וַיִּשְׂא֥וּand they lifted
vaiyisuH5375 →656 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
שִׁבְרָ֖םgrain their
shivramH7668 →9 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
חֲמֹרֵיהֶ֑םdonkeys their
chamoreihemH2543 →96 times
וַיֵּלְכ֖וּand they went
vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times
מִשָּֽׁם׃from there
mishamH8033 →834 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About Genesis
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.