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Genesis 42:8 KJV
Genesis · chapter 42 · verse 8
And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.Genesis 42:8 · King James Version
Genesis 42:8 in context
6And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
9And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
10And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- brethrenʼâcha brother )H251 →
- JosephYôwçêphJoseph, the name of seven IsraelitesH3130 →
- knewnâkarproperly, to scrutinizeH5234 →
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We may well wonder that Joseph, during the twenty years that he had now been in Egypt, especially during the last seven years that he had been in power there, never sent to his father to acquaint him with his circumstances;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-20