Genesis 43:33 - Exposition

And they sat before him ,—that the Egyptians sat at meals is in exact accordance With the representations on the monuments, in which they are never exhibited as reposing on couches, but always as seated round a circular table resembling the monopodium of the Romans— the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marveled one at another —probably thinking that Joseph must have been supernaturally enlightened to discover so exactly the ages of strangers.