Genesis 42:23
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New International Version (©1984)
They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They did not know, however, that Joseph understood, for there was an interpreter between them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They didn't know that Joseph could understand them, because he was speaking through an interpreter.

King James Bible
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

American King James Version
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke to them by an interpreter.

American Standard Version
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

Bible in Basic English
They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by an interpreter.

Darby Bible Translation
And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.

English Revised Version
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke to them by an interpreter.

World English Bible
They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter is between them;

Geneva Study Bible

And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

King James Translators' Notes

he spake...: Heb. an interpreter was between them

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

42:21-24 The office of conscience is to bring to mind things long since said and done. When the guilt of this sin of Joseph's brethren was fresh, they made light of it, and sat down to eat bread; but now, long afterward, their consciences accused them of it. See the good of afflictions; they often prove the happy means of awakening conscience, and bringing sin to our remembrance. Also, the evil of guilt as to our brethren. Conscience now reproached them for it. Whenever we think we have wrong done us, we ought to remember the wrong we have done to others. Reuben alone remembered with comfort, that he had done what he could to prevent the mischief. When we share with others in their sufferings, it will be a comfort if we have the testimony of our consciences for us, that we did not share in their evil deeds, but in our places witnessed against them. Joseph retired to weep. Though his reason directed that he should still carry himself as a stranger, because they were not as yet humbled enough, yet natural affection could not but work.


Genesis 42:22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not tell you, 'Do not sin against the boy'; and you would not listen? Now comes the reckoning for his blood."
Genesis 42:24 He turned away from them and wept. But when he returned to them and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes. (NASB ©1995)

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And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

he spake unto them by a interpreter. Heb. an interpreter was between them. The {mailitz} does not seem to have been an interpreter in our sense of the term; as we have many evidences in this book that the Egyptians, Hebrews, Canaanites, and Syrians, could understand each other in a general way; and it appears from several passages in this very chapter, (particularly ver. 24,) that Joseph and his brethren understood each others' language, as his brethren and Joseph's steward also did (ch. 43:19, etc; compare ch. 39; 49.) It seems to denote an officer who is called in Abyssinia, according to Mr. Bruce, {Kal Hatz?,} the voice or word of the king, who always stands at the side of a lattice window of a balcony, within which the king sits; who is never seen, but who speaks through a hole in the side of it, covered in the inside with a curtain, to this officer, by whom he speaks to the persons present.

Joh 16:13,14 2Co 5:20

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