Genesis - 42:32



32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 42:32.

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We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.
we are twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one is to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.
We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. .
We are twelve brothers conceived of one father. One is not living; the youngest is with our father in the land of Canaan.'
Duodecim sumus fratres filii patris nostri: unus non est, et minimus hodie est cum patre nostro in terra Chenaan.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

We be twelve brethren, sons of our father,.... All brethren by the father's side, though not by the mother's, and by one father; they had been twelve, and were so now, though they knew it not, supposing that one was dead, as is next observed:
one is not; is not alive, but dead; the Targum of Jonathan is,"what is become of one we know not"
and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan; see Genesis 42:13.

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