And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed [their flocks].
Ver. 16. I seek my brethren.] He stayed not at Shechem, whither his father sent him; but missing them there, he seeks farther, till he found them. This is true obedience, whether to God or man, when we look not so much to the letter of the law, as to the mind of the lawmaker; apices iuris non sunt ius.