King James Version
Genesis 45:20 in the King James Version says “Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. regard: Heb. let not your eye spare, etc.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 45 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. regard: Heb. let not your eye spare, etc.”
Genesis 45:20 · KJV
And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. regard: Heb. let not your eye spare, etc.
And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. commandment: Heb. mouth
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Also”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“not your stuff”
H3627something prepared, i.e., any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“for the good”
H2898good (as a noun), in the widest sense, especially goodness (superlative concretely, the best), beauty, gladness, welfare
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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