slay my two sonnes] He had foure sonnes, Genesis 46:9. therefore some read, for slay my two sonnes, slay two of my sonnes, or two which were then present, the other two at that time absent; but what securitie was this to Jacob, who would be more loath to slay two of his grand-children, then to send his sonne Benjamin? this was a passionate and inconsiderate speech of Reuben, yet so that Jacob might thinke that though his words were rash, there was some reason for his confident undertaking for Benjamins returne.