Genesis - 44:25



25 Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 44:25.

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And our father said: Go again, and buy us a little wheat.
and our father saith, Turn back, buy for us a little food,
And our father said, Go again and get us a little food.
And our father said: 'Return and buy us a little wheat.'
Dixit pater noster, Revertimini, emite nobis pusillum escae.

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And our father said,.... After some time, when the corn was almost consumed they had bought in Egypt:
go again, and buy us a little food; that may suffice fill the famine is over; see Genesis 43:1.

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