Genesis 42:23 meaning and explanation

They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.

Genesis 42:23, Berean Standard Bible

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The brothers are speaking among themselves in Egypt, not knowing that the Egyptian official before them is Joseph, the brother they sold into slavery some twenty years earlier. Verses 6 and 7 say he recognized them while they did not recognize him, and verse 24 shows him turning aside to weep.

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