Chuàngshìjì 42:6

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 .

Chuàngshìjì 42:6 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 42:6

And Joseph [was] the governor over the land
Not the land of Canaan last mentioned, but the land of Egypt; under Pharaoh, he had the chief and sole authority, and especially in the affair of the corn, and the disposal of that; [and] he [it was] that sold to all the people of the land:
of Egypt, and also to all that came out of other lands; not that he in person could do all this, but by those that acted under him: and Joseph's brethren came;
to Joseph to buy corn of him: and bowed down themselves before him, [with] their faces to the earth;
not only bowed the knee as the Egyptians did, but prostrated their whole bodies, stretching out their hands and feet, and touching the ground with their faces, as was the manner of the eastern countries, at least some of them; and so of Canaan; and thus did they submit themselves to him in the most humble manner, and thereby, though without their knowledge, fulfilled his dream of their sheaves making obeisance to his sheaf, ( Genesis 37:7 ) .

Chuàngshìjì 42:6 In-Context

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 .

8 Yūesè rèn de tā gēge men , tāmen què bú rèn de tā .