Chuàngshìjì 47:18

18 Nà yī nián guò qù , dì èr nián tāmen yòu lái jiàn Yūesè , shuō , wǒmen bú mán wǒ zhǔ , wǒmen de yínzi dōu huā jìn le , shēngchù yĕ dōu guī le wǒ zhǔ . wǒmen zaì wǒ zhǔ yǎnqián , chúle wǒmen de shēntǐ hé tiándì zhī waì , yī wú suǒ shèng .

Chuàngshìjì 47:18 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 47:18

When the year was ended, they came unto him the second year,
&c.] Which seems to be the seventh and last year of the years of famine; not the second year of the famine, as Jarchi, but the second year of their great distress, when having spent all their money they parted with their cattle; for it cannot be thought that they should be drained of their money and cattle too in one year:

and said unto him, we will not hide [it] from my lord, how that our
money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle;
both these were well known to Joseph, and therefore cannot be the things which they say they would not hide: Musculus thinks it should be rendered in the past tense, "we have not hid"; this they told him the last year, that their money was gone, and he knew he had their cattle for their last year's provision: the sense seems to be this, that seeing their money was spent, and their cattle were in the hands of Joseph, they would not, and could not conceal from him what follows:

there is not enough left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and
our lands;
and the one were starving and the other desolate.

Chuàngshìjì 47:18 In-Context

16 Yūesè shuō , ruò shì yínzi yòng jìn le , kĕyǐ bǎ nǐmen de shēngchù gĕi wǒ , wǒ jiù wèi nǐmen de shēngchù gĕi nǐmen liángshi .

17 Yúshì tāmen bǎ shēngchù gǎn dào Yūesè nàli , Yūesè jiù ná liángshi huàn le tāmende niú , yáng , lü , mǎ . nà yī nián yīn huàn tāmen yīqiè de shēngchù , jiù yòng liángshi yǎnghuo tāmen .

18 Nà yī nián guò qù , dì èr nián tāmen yòu lái jiàn Yūesè , shuō , wǒmen bú mán wǒ zhǔ , wǒmen de yínzi dōu huā jìn le , shēngchù yĕ dōu guī le wǒ zhǔ . wǒmen zaì wǒ zhǔ yǎnqián , chúle wǒmen de shēntǐ hé tiándì zhī waì , yī wú suǒ shèng .

19 Nǐ hé rĕn jiàn wǒmen rén sǐdì huāng ne . qiú nǐ yòng liángshi mǎi wǒmen de wǒmen de dì , wǒmen hé wǒmen de dì jiù yào gĕi fǎlǎo xiàolì . yòu qiú nǐ gĕi wǒmen zhǒngzǐ , shǐ wǒmen déyǐ cún huó , bù zhì sǐwáng , dì tǔ yĕ bù zhì huāngliáng .

20 Yúshì , Yūesè wèi fǎlǎo mǎi le Āijí suǒyǒude dì , Āijí rén yīn beì jīhuāng suǒ pǎi , gè dōu maì le zìjǐ de tiándì . nà dì jiù dōu guī le fǎlǎo .