Then came there unto him all his brethren and all his sisters, all the relatives who had so heartlessly withdrawn from him during his misery, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, Cf 19:13-19, and did eat bread with him in his house, once more glad to enjoy his hospitality; and they bemoaned him, after the fashion of friends of this type, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. Every man also gave him a piece of money, a piece of gold believed to have been stamped with the figure of a lamb, worth about four times as much as a shekel, Genesis 33:19, and everyone an earring of gold, for nose rings and earrings were worn by both men and women at that time.

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