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For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”
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Verse 20. Joseph. Semei was a Benjamite: but Joseph designates all the Israelites, except those of Juda, ( Worthington.) as these two possessed the birth-right of Ruben. 1 Chronicles 5:1. Menochius. See Psalms 79:1, Zechariah 10:6.—But we may translate with the Septuagint “before all the house of Joseph.” Chal. Syr. and so forth Calmet.
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