◄ Genesis 45:2 ►
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
Treasury of Scripture

wept aloud. Heb. gave forth his voice in weeping. This, says Sir J. Chardin, is exactly the genius of the people of Asia; their sentiments of joy or grief are properly transports, and their transports are ungoverned, excessive, and truly outrageous. When anyone returns from a long journey or dies, his family burst into cries that may be heard twenty doors off; and this is renewed at different times, and continues many days, according to the vigour of the passion. Sometimes they cease all at once, and then begin as suddenly, with a greater shrillness and loudness than one could easily imagine.

Numbers 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

Ruth 1:9 The LORD grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them...

2 Kings 20:3 I beseech you, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart...

Acts 20:37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,



Context
Joseph Reveals his Identity

1Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 2And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. 3And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph; does my father yet live? And his brothers could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. 4And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 5Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 6For these two years has the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be ripening nor harvest. 7And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8So now it was not you that sent me here, but God: and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he lifted up his voice with weeping, which the Egyptians and all the house of Pharao heard. \

Darby Bible Translation
And he raised his voice in weeping; and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

King James Bible
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

Young's Literal Translation
and he giveth forth his voice in weeping, and the Egyptians hear, and the house of Pharaoh heareth.

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