Genesis 44 · Verse 6

Genesis 44:6

And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
Genesis 44:6, King James Version

Genesis 44:6 in other translations

BSBWhen the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.
WEBHe overtook them, and he spoke these words to them.
ASVAnd he overtook them, and he spake unto them these words.
YLTAnd he overtaketh them, and speaketh unto them these words,
DARBYAnd he overtook them, and he spoke to them these words.
BBESo he overtook them and said these words to them.
WebsterAnd he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same words.

What does Genesis 44:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 44:6-7
6-7. he overtook them, and he spake ... these words--The steward's words must have come upon them like a thunderbolt, and one of their most predominant feelings must have been the humiliating and galling sense of being made so often objects of suspicion. Protesting their innocence, they invited a search. The challenge was accepted [Ge 44:10, 11]. Beginning with the eldest, every sack was examined, and the cup being found in Benjamin's [Ge 44:12], they all returned in an indescribable agony of mind to the house of the governor [Ge 44:13], throwing themselves at his feet [Ge 44:14], with the remarkable confession, "God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants" [Ge 44:16].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 44:1-17

Joseph tried how his brethren felt towards Benjamin. Had they envied and hated the other son of Rachel as they had hated him, and if they had the same want of feeling towards their father Jacob as heretofore, they would now have shown it. When the cup was found upon Benjamin, they would have a pretext for leaving him to be a slave. But we cannot judge what men are now, by what they have been formerly; nor what they…

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Genesis 44:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַֽיַּשִּׂגֵ֑םvai.ya.si.Gemand he overtook themH5381
וַיְדַבֵּ֣רvay.da.Berand he spokeH1696
אֲלֵהֶ֔ם'a.le.Hemto themH413
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַדְּבָרִ֖יםha.de.va.Rimthe wordsH1697
הָאֵֽלֶּה\׃ha.'E.leh<the> theseH428

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

  • Genesis 44:5

    Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

  • Genesis 44:6

    And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.

  • Genesis 44:7

    And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:

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Genesis 44:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y como él los alcanzó, díjoles estas palabras.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et il les atteignit, et leur dit ces paroles-là.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und er erreichte sie und redete diese Worte zu ihnen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Fecit ille ut jusserat: et apprehensis per ordinem locutus est.