THEOSISJohn Chrysostom
Retrieve the silver that you discovered hidden, and for the acquisition of bread, obtain additional silver.
Genesis 43:12Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And take with you double money, and carry back what you found in your sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mistake.
וְכֶ֥סֶף מִשְׁנֶ֖ה קְח֣וּ בְיֶדְכֶ֑ם וְאֶת־הַכֶּ֜סֶף הַמּוּשָׁ֨ב בְּפִ֤י אַמְתְּחֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ תָּשִׁ֣יבוּ בְיֶדְכֶ֔ם אוּלַ֥י מִשְׁגֶּ֖ה הֽוּא׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 42:25And taking Simeon, and binding him in their presence, he commanded his servants to fill their sacks with wheat, and to put every man's money again in their sacks, and to give them besides provisions for the way: and they did so.
- Gen 42:35When they had told this, they poured out their corn, and every man found his money tied in the mouth of his sack: and all being astonished together,
- 2 Cor 8:21For we forecast what may be good, not only before God but also before men.
- Rom 13:8Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law.
- Heb 13:8Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.
- Rom 12:17To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of all men.
- Phil 4:8For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.
- 1 Thess 5:21But prove all things: hold fast that which is good.