The youngest according to his youth; being so placed either by Joseph's appointment; or rather by their own choice, and according to their custom; by which the elder, though the handmaidens children, took place of the younger, who by that order were taught what veneration they owe to the aged, and how great a sin it is, though very customary, in young men to despise those whom they should reverence. The men, not the Egyptians, but the Hebrews, the men last spoken of, marvelled; either at the matter and manner of the feasts and entertainments of the Egyptians; or rather, at the singular honour which Joseph did to them above all others, the reason whereof they could not conceive, and therefore marvelled at it.
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Genesis 43:33
33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.