Genesis 45:2

Overview - Genesis 45
1	Joseph makes himself known to his brethren.
5	He comforts them in God's providence.
9	He sends for his father.
16	Pharaoh confirms it.
21	Joseph furnishes then for their journey, and exhorts them to concord.
25	Jacob is revived with the news.

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Genesis 45:2 (King James Version)
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

wept aloud: Hebrew gave forth his voice in weeping.; "This," says Sir J. Chardin, "is exactly the genius of the people of Asia; their sentiments of joy or grief are properly transports, and their transports are ungoverned, excessive, and truly outrageous. When anyone returns from a long journey or dies, his family burst into cries that may be heard twenty doors off; and this is renewed at different times, and continues many days, according to the vigour of the passion. Sometimes they cease all at once, and then begin as suddenly, with a greater shrillness and loudness than one could easily imagine."; Numbers 14:1 ; Ruth 1:9 ; 2 Kings 20:3 ; Acts 20:37