Genesis 45:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And leave nothing of your household stuff; for all the riches of Egypt shall be yours.
Douay-Rheims

וְעֵ֣ינְכֶ֔ם אַל־תָּחֹ֖ס עַל־כְּלֵיכֶ֑ם כִּי־ט֛וּב כָּל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם לָכֶ֥ם הֽוּא׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Philaret of Moscow (Drosdow)

19th centuryChurch Father

Do not let your gaze linger on your possessions. 'Do not concern yourself during your journey with collecting and transporting all your belongings; leave them behind so that you may quickly reach the place where fulfillment and joy are promised to you in every aspect.'

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Isa 1:19If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
Luke 17:31In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back.
Deut 7:16Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin.
Isa 13:18But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.
Ezek 12:3Thou, therefore, O son of man, prepare thee all necessaries for removing, and remove by day into their sight: and thou shalt remove out of thy place to another place in their sight, if so be they will regard it: for they are a provoking house.
Ezek 12:4And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture as the furniture of one that is removing by day in their sight: and thou shalt go forth in the evening in their presence, as one goeth forth that removeth his dwelling.
1 Sam 30:24And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But equal shall be the portion of him that went down to battle, and of him that abode at the baggage, and they shall divide alike.
Deut 19:13Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.