OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 42:23

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They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

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Verse 23. Interpreter, to keep them at a greater distance. It does not appear that the sons of Jacob were ignorant of the language of the country. Calmet.

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