Genesis 45:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Regard not your stuff— The word, which we render stuff, כלי keli, signifies furniture of any kind; whatever is prepared and finished for the use of man. And the expression, which is peculiar in the Hebrew, as the margins of our Bibles shew, seems only to signify, that they should pay no regard to their possessions or moveables in the land of Canaan. Chais translates it, ne regrettez point vos meubles, don't regret or grudge your moveables. The rendering of the Vulgate, leave nothing of your furniture behind, nec dimittatis quidquam de supellectili vestra, is wrong, as the reason given in the next clause manifestly shews; for the good of all the land of AEgypt is yours.

Genesis 45:20

20 Also regarde not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.