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Summary

And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

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The men

Then they said one to another, "We have verily sinned against our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us, and would not hear him: therefore is this trouble come upon us."
and said unto his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God!"
A fearful sound is ever in his ears, and when it is peace yet feareth he destruction.
They are afraid where no fear is; for God breaketh the bones of them that besiege thee. Thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath despised them.
Then thought I to understand this; but it was too hard for me,
Now when the house of David - that is Ahaz - heard word thereof, that Syria and Ephraim were confederate together: His heart quaked, yea and the hearts also of his people, like as a tree in the field that is moved with the wind.
and when his disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It is some spirit," and cried out for fear.
But when Herod heard of him, he said, "It is John whom I beheaded, he is risen from death again."

Seek occasion against us

and lay shameful things unto her charge and bring up an evil name upon her and say, 'I took this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid':
But his father and mother wist not that it was the LORD's doing, and that he sought an occasion of the Philistines, which at that time reigned over Israel.
They fell upon me, as it had been the breaking in of waters, and came in by heaps to destroy me.
But sin took an occasion by the means of the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For verily, without the law sin was dead.
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