Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Kejadian 42:3

buy Heb. שִׁבְרוּ. Comp. (Gen. 42:3) “To buy (לִשְׁבֹּר) corn,” buy.

Bahya writes. The verse tells us that ten brothers went. That is to say, they wanted to pray with a quorum, which is ten, and that the Holy One should send them their brother Joseph.⁴⁹Bahya, Genesis, 42:3.

“He said to them, you are spies” [42:9]. Joseph said: you are spies, to spy out the land. The Midrash writes and also Rashi, Hizkuni, and Bahya, that Joseph had commanded that no person should be allowed to enter into any gate in Egypt. He must first write down his name and his father’s name, and from which city he came from. Every evening, the guards brought the letters listing those who had come to the city. When the children of Jacob came, each one went into a different gate and each one wrote his name and his father’s name. In the evening, the ten letters of the ten children of Jacob with their names and the name of their father, Jacob, were brought. Joseph immediately commanded that all the grain treasuries be closed, but only one treasury should remain open. Joseph gave the letters to the official in his hand. If the people called Reuben the son of Jacob, Simeon the son of Jacob, and similarly, the other brothers, this official should stop these children and send them to him. The official waited for three days and they did not come. Joseph immediately took ten strong men from the house of Pharaoh and let them search in Egypt. They found the brothers in the market where the prostitutes are found. The brothers wanted to find Joseph. Since he was a handsome man, he might have been sold to the prostitutes market, to have sexual relations with him. The ten men found them and brought them before Joseph. Joseph said to his brothers, you are spies seeking to see how the land can be conquered.⁶⁰Rashi, Genesis, 42:9; Bahya, Genesis, 42:3; Hizkuni, Genesis, 42:12.