And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house,.... It not being usual, as Jarchi observes, for those that came to buy corn to lodge there, but at an inn in the city:and they said, because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; to examine and inquire of them how they came to go away without paying for their corn, take up their money again after they had laid it down, and take it away with them, and so were guilty of tricking and defrauding, if not of theft:that he may seek occasion against us: or "roll on us" ; cast all the shame on them, and leave the reproach and scandal of it on them:and fall upon us; with hard words, and severe menaces, if not with blows:and take us for bondmen, and our asses; imprison them, which was the punishment for fraud and theft, and take their asses as a forfeiture.
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Genesis 43:18
Genesis 43:18
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