sate down] Here is not a word how Joseph tooke the matter at his brethrens hands, nor what he said to save himselfe; yet it is plaine by the confession of his brethren among themselves (when they saw themselves entangled by their own fault) that he besought them in the anguish of his soule to spare him; but they would not heare, Chap. 42. 21. whence we may be directed to supply the sense of a doubtfull place with such additions as in probabilitie of reason are sutable to it. to eat] They refreshed themselves, or it may be feasted, because now they were freed from their dreaming brother; their consciences were asleepe, as Jonah was in the side of the ship, Jonah 1:5. so they make much of themselves, and little regard the afflictions of Joseph, Amos 6:6. to eat bread] An usuall phrase in Scripture for the sustenance of man, which is put many times for a full meale with varietie of meats, Exodus 18:12. Gilead] Which was the way from Arabia to Dothan, and Dothan the way thence into Egypt.