Genesis Chapter 43 verse 33 Holy Bible
And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one with another.
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And Joseph sent food to them from his table, but he sent five times as much to Benjamin as to any of the others. And they took wine freely with him.
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And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth; and the men marvelled one at another.
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And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marveled one at another.
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And he took and sent messes to them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.
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They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.
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And they sit before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the young one according to his youth, and the men wonder one at another;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 33. - And they sat before him, - that the Egyptians sat at meals is in exact accordance With the representations on the monuments, in which they are never exhibited as reposing on couches, but always as seated round a circular table resembling the mono-podium of the Romans (vide Wilkinson, 'Ancient Egyptians,' vol. 2. pp. 40, 41, with Dr. Bitch's note; Hengetenberg's 'Egypt and the Books of Moses,' Genesis 1. p. 38) - the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marveled one at another - probably thinking that Joseph must have been supernaturally enlightened to discover so exactly the ages of strangers.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(33) They sat.--The Egyptians are always represented on the monuments as sitting at their meals. For the Hebrew custom see Note on Genesis 27:19. The brethren, on finding themselves placed according to their age, must have supposed that Joseph possessed powers of divination, especially as the giving of due precedence was and is looked upon in the East as a matter of high importance.
