Genesis 42:7, 8
And
Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them,
and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they
said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
And
Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
a. Although Joseph knew his brothers, they
did not know him. His Egyptian cultural dress and appearance helped cloak his identity
from them and Joseph spoke Egyptian to them, while an interpreter translated.
Plus the fact they hadn’t seen him in 22 years.
1). Genesis 42:23 And they knew not that
Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
b. Joseph’s ten older brothers had been
living with a guilty conscience for over twenty years, they must have thought
of Joseph and wondered what had become of him in Egypt.
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