Chuàngshìjì 37:29

29 Liúbiàn huí dào kēng bian , jiàn Yūesè bú zaì kēng lǐ , jiù sī liè yīfu ,

Chuàngshìjì 37:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 37:29

And Reuben returned unto the pit
It is very probable he had pretended to go somewhere on business, with an intention to take a circuit, and come to the pit and deliver his brother, and go home with him to his father. The Jews say ^F2 he departed from his brethren, and sat down on a certain mountain, that he might descend in the night and take Joseph out of the pit, and accordingly he came down in the night, and found him not. So Josephus ^F3 says, it was in the night when Reuben came to the pit, who calling to Joseph, and he not answering, suspected he was killed:

and, behold, Joseph [was] not in the pit;
for neither by looking down into it could he see him, nor by calling be answered by him, which made it a clear case to him he was not there:

and he rent his clothes;
as a token of distress and anguish of mind, of sorrow and mourning, as was usual in such cases; Jacob afterwards did the same, ( Genesis 37:34 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Pirke Eliezer, ut supra. (c. 38.)
F3 Antiqu. l. 2. c. 3. sect. 3.

Chuàngshìjì 37:29 In-Context

27 Wǒmen bú rú jiāng tā maì gĕi Yǐshímǎlì rén , bùkĕ xià shǒu haì tā . yīnwei tā shì wǒmen de xiōngdi , wǒmen de gǔròu . zhòng dìxiōng jiù tīng cóng le tā .

28 Yǒu xiē Mǐdiàn de shāng rén cóng nàli jīngguò , gēge men jiù bǎ Yūesè cóng kēng lǐ lá shàng lái , jiǎngdéng èr shí Shĕkèlè yínzi , bǎ Yūesè maì gĕi Yǐshímǎlì rén . tāmen jiù bǎ Yūesè daì dào Āijí qù le .

29 Liúbiàn huí dào kēng bian , jiàn Yūesè bú zaì kēng lǐ , jiù sī liè yīfu ,

30 Huí dào xiōngdi men nàli , shuō , tóngzǐ méiyǒu le . wǒ wàng nǎli qù cái hǎo ne ,

31 Tāmen zǎi le yī zhī gōng shānyáng , bǎ Yūesè de nà jiàn cǎi yī rǎn le xuè ,