Gen. 45:2

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wept aloud.

Heb. gave forth his voice in weeping."This," says Sir J. Chardin, "is exactly the genius of the people of Asia; their sentiments of joy or grief are properly transports, and their transports are ungoverned, excessive, and truly outrageous.

When anyone returns from a long journey or dies, his family burst into cries that may be heard twenty doors off; and this is renewed at different times, and continues many days, according to the vigour of the passion.

Sometimes they cease all at once, and then begin as suddenly, with a greater shrillness and loudness than one could easily imagine."

Num 14:1; Ruth 1:9; 2Kgs 20:3; Acts 20:37