Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
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Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
Then Joseph said to them, “What this deed that you have done? Did you not know that a man who like me indeed divines?”
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Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”
“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”
And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I can indeed divine?
And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I can indeed divine?
Then Ioseph sayd vnto them, What acte is this, which ye haue done? know ye not that such a man as I, can deuine and prophecie?
And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.
and Joseph saith to them, `What `is' this deed that ye have done? have ye not known that a man like me doth diligently observe?'
and Joseph says to them, “What [is] this deed that you have done? Have you not known that a man like me diligently observes?”
Joseph said to them, “What is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me practices divination?”
Then Joseph said to them, “What this deed that you have done? Did you not know that a man who like me indeed divines?”
And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done? Did ye not know that such a man as I can certainly divine?
Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”
And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that ye have done? knew ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
“Why did you do this?” Joseph asked. “Don't you know a man like me can find out things through divination?”
And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?
And Joseph said unto them: 'What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I will indeed divine?'
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is נַחֵ֧שׁ to divine H5172 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
נַחֵ֧שׁ to divine H5172 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 16 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ יוֹסֵ֔ף מָֽה הַמַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר עֲשִׂיתֶ֑ם הֲל֣וֹא יְדַעְתֶּ֔ם כִּֽי נַחֵ֧שׁ יְנַחֵ֛שׁ אִ֖ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר כָּמֹֽנִי
Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Don't you know that such a man as I can indeed divine?"
World English Bible · Public Domain
εἶπον δέ αὐτός ιωσηφ τίς ὁ πρᾶγμα οὗτος ὅς ποιέω οὐ οἶδα ὅτι οἰωνισμός οἰωνίζομαι ἄνθρωπος οἷος ἐγώ
And Joseph said to them, What is this thing that you⌃ have done? know you⌃ not that a man such as I can surely divine?
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וַאֲמַר לְהוֹן יוֹסֵף מָה עוֹבָדָא הָדֵין דִּי עֲבַדְתּוּן הֲלָא יְדַּעְתּוּן אֲרֵי בָדָקָא מְבָדֵק גַּבְרָא דִּי כְוָתִי
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וַאֲמַר לְהוֹם יוֹסֵף מַה עוּבְדָא הָדֵין דַעֲבַדְתּוּן הֲלָא יְדַעְתּוּן אֲרוּם מְטַיְירָא יְטַיֵיר גְבַר דִכְוָותִי
And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that you have done? Could you not know that a man like me divining can divine?
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 16 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâchash (“to divine”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 44:15 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.
Sforno
Rabbi Ovadia Sforno
Sforno on the Tanakh — English translation: “Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.