Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 43:33
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Genesis43:33
33 And they sate before him, the first-born according to his birth-right, and the youngest according to his youth : and the men marvelled one at another.
Being so placed either by Iosephs appointment: or rather by their own choice and according to their custome; by which the elder, though the handmaidens children, took place of the younger, who by that order were taught what veneration they owe to the aged, and how great a sin it is, though very customary, in young men to despise those whom they should reverence.
Not the Egyptians, but the Hebrews, the men last spoken of.
Either at the matter and manner of the feasts and entertainments of the Egyptians; or rather at the singular honour which Ioseph did to them above all others, the reason whereof they could not conceive, and therefore marvelled at it.
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