Genèse 42:28

28 Il dit à ses frères: Mon argent a été rendu, et le voici dans mon sac. Alors leur coeur fut en défaillance; et ils se dirent l'un à l'autre, en tremblant: Qu'est-ce que Dieu nous a fait?

Genèse 42:28 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 42:28

And he said unto his brethren, my money is restored
The money paid for the corn is returned: and, lo, [it is] even in my sack;
this put them all upon opening their sacks, where every man found his money, though not expressed, see ( Genesis 43:21 ) : and their heart failed [them];
through surprise and fear; or "went out"

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 front them, as it were, they were ready to faint and swoon away: and they were afraid;
their consciences being awakened, and loaded with the guilt of their former sins, they were afraid that more evil was coming upon them for them; and that this was a scheme laid to entrap them, and that they should be pursued and seized, and fetched back, and charged with a fraud and trick, as going off with their corn without paying for it: saying one to another, what [is] this [that] God hath done unto us?
for whoever was the instrument, they concluded the overruling hand of divine Providence was in it, for the further chastisement and correction of them for their iniquity: instead of being thus frightened and distressed, it is very much it did not give them suspicion of Joseph, that he was the person they had been conversing with, and that he had done this in kindness to them; but their minds were so pressed with the guilt of their sin, that they were possessed of nothing but fears and dreadful apprehensions of things, and put the worst construction upon them they could, as men in such circumstances usually do, even fear where no fear is, or no occasion for it.
F3 (Mbl auyw) "et exiit cor eorum", Montanus, Drusius, Piscator, Schmidt.

Genèse 42:28 In-Context

26 Ils chargèrent le blé sur leurs ânes, et partirent.

27 L'un d'eux ouvrit son sac pour donner du fourrage à son âne, dans le lieu où ils passèrent la nuit, et il vit l'argent qui était à l'entrée du sac.

28 Il dit à ses frères: Mon argent a été rendu, et le voici dans mon sac. Alors leur coeur fut en défaillance; et ils se dirent l'un à l'autre, en tremblant: Qu'est-ce que Dieu nous a fait?

29 Ils revinrent auprès de Jacob, leur père, dans le pays de Canaan, et ils lui racontèrent tout ce qui leur était arrivé. Ils dirent:

30 L'homme, qui est le seigneur du pays, nous a parlé durement, et il nous a pris pour des espions.