Genesis 42:5
And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- ingressi sunt terram Ægypti cum aliis qui pergebant ad emendum. Erat autem fames in terra Chanaan.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἦλθον δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἀγοράζειν μετὰ τῶν ἐρχομένων· ἦν γὰρ ὁ λιμὸς ἐν γῇ Χανάαν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹ֨אוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לִשְׁבֹּ֖ר בְּת֣וֹךְ הַבָּאִ֑ים כִּֽי הָיָ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ב בְּאֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXII
3. “Nevertheless, mine honour they have thought to drive back” ( ver. 4 ). Conquered while they slay men yielding, by the blood of the slain multiplying the faithful, yielding to these and no longer being able to kill; “Nevertheless, mine honour they have thought to drive back.” Now because a Christian cannot be killed, pains are taken that a Christian should be dishonoured. For now by the honour of Christians the hearts of ungodly men are tortured: now that spiritual Joseph, after his selling by his brethren, after his removal from his home into Egypt as though into the Gentiles, after the humiliation of a prison, after the made-up tale of a false witness, after that there had come to pass that which of him was said, “Iron passed through the soul of him:” now he is honoured, now he is not made subject to brethren selling him, but corn he supplieth to them hungering. …