Genesis 43:32
eat bread: Gen 43:16, Gen 31:54 for that is an abomination: The Chaldee Paraphrast renders this clause, "Because the Hebrews eat the cattle which the Egyptians worship." But, as we learn from Gen 43:16, compared with this verse, that the provision for the entertainment of the Egyptians themselves was animal food, this reason cannot be just. The true reason seems to be that assigned by the LXX, Βδελυγμα γαρ εστιν τοις Αιγυπτιοις πας ποιμην προβατων· "For every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians." Gen 46:34, Exo 8:26 Reciprocal: Gen 14:13 - the Gen 29:8 - until Gen 39:6 - save Gen 44:2 - General Deu 33:16 - and upon the top 1Sa 9:22 - in the chiefest Pro 23:1 - General