Chuàngshìjì 42:5

5 Lái dí liáng de rén zhōng yǒu Yǐsèliè de érzi men , yīnwei Jiānán dì yĕ yǒu jīhuāng .

Chuàngshìjì 42:5 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 42:5

And the sons of Israel came to buy [corn] among those that
came
Either among the Egyptians that came to buy, or among those who came from different countries, or rather particularly among the Canaanites, as the Targum of Jonathan; with these they might join upon the road, and go together in a body where the market for corn was: for the famine was in the land of Canaan:
which obliged the inhabitants of it as well as Jacob's family to seek for corn elsewhere, and confirms the sense of the preceding clause: this, though a very fruitful land, yet when God withheld a blessing from it, it became barren, as it had been before, ( Genesis 12:10 ) ( 26:1 ) , and was to try the faith of those good men to whom God had given it, and to wean their hearts from being set upon it, and to put them upon seeking a better country, as they did.

Chuàngshìjì 42:5 In-Context

3 Yúshì , Yūesè de shí gè gēge dōu xià Āijí dí liáng qù le .

4 Dàn Yūesè de xiōngdi Biànyǎmǐn , Yǎgè méiyǒu dǎfa tā hé gēge men tóng qù , yīnwei Yǎgè shuō , kǒngpà tā zāo haì .

5 Lái dí liáng de rén zhōng yǒu Yǐsèliè de érzi men , yīnwei Jiānán dì yĕ yǒu jīhuāng .

6 Dāngshí zhìlǐ Āijí dì de shì Yūesè . tiào liáng gĕi nà dì zhòng mín de jiù shì tā . Yūesè de gēge men lái le , liǎn fú yú dì , xiàng tā xià baì .

7 Yūesè kànjian tā gēge men , jiù rèn de tāmen , què zhuāng zuò shēngrén , xiàng tāmen shuō xiē yánlì huà , wèn tāmen shuō , nǐmen cóng nǎli lái . tāmen shuō , wǒmen cóng Jiānán dì lái dí liáng .