Genesis 45:1--50:26
able ... control <03201 0662> [could not.]
Make ... go out <03318> [Cause.]
wept loudly <05414 06963> [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."
Joseph ........ Joseph <03130> [I am Joseph.]
dumbfounded <0926> [for they.]
dumbfounded <0926> [troubled. or, terrified.]
Joseph ................... Joseph <03130> [I am Joseph.]
upset <06087> [be not grieved.]
angry <02734 05869> [nor angry with yourselves. Heb. neither let there be anger in your eyes. God.]
years ............. years <08141> [two years.]
plowing <02758> [earing.]
Earing means ploughing or seed-time from the Anglo-Saxon {erian,} probably from {aro,} to plough; and agrees with [aroo <\\See definition 723\\>,] Greek, {charatha,} Arabic, and {charash,} Hebrew.
preserve <07760 07611> [to preserve you a posterity. Heb. to put for you a remnant. to save.]
sent <07971> [it was not.]
adviser <01> [father.]
tell <0559> [Thus saith.]
down <03381> [come.]
land <0776> [in the land.]
Goshen <01657> [Goshen.]
Goshen was the most eastern district of Lower Egypt, and the frontier of that country and Arabia, not far from the Arabian gulf, and lying next to Canaan; for Jacob went directly thither when he came into Egypt, from which it was about eighty miles distant, though Hebron was distant from the Egyptian capital about three hundred miles.
near <07138> [be near.]
can ....... eyes <05869> [your eyes.]
speaks <06310> [my mouth.]
[Not as.]
honor <03519> [my glory.]
down <03381> [bring.]
kissed <05401> [Moreover.]
talked <01696> [talked.]
Pharaoh ....... pleased Pharaoh <06547 03190> [it pleased Pharaoh well. Heb. was good in the eyes of]
Pharaoh.
Load ... animals <02943 01165> [lade your.]
best <02459> [the fat.]
commanded <06680> [commanded.]
[waggons.]
little ones ..... wives <02945 0802> [for your.]
worry .... belongings <02347 03627> [regard not. Heb. let not your eye spare, etc.]
belongings <03627> [stuff.]
best <02898> [the good.]
[waggons.]
instructed <06310> [commandment. Heb. mouth.]
gave .............. gave <05414> [To all.]
It is a common custom with all the Asiatic sovereigns to give both garments and money to ambassadors and persons of distinction, whom they particularly wish to honour. De La Motraye says, "that they then clothed them (the ambassadors) with {caffetans} (long vests of gold or silver brocade) with large silk flowers."
<0376> [each.]
Benjamin <01144> [to Benjamin.]
loaded ..... products ........ loaded ... grain <05375 02898 01250> [laden with. Heb. carrying.]
products <02898> [good things.]
provisions <04202> [meat.]
As {mazon} is derived from {zoon,} to prepare, provide, Dr. A. Clarke thinks it may mean here prepared meat; some made-up dish, delicacies, confectionaries, etc. In Asiatic countries they have several curious methods of preserving flesh by potting, by which it may be kept, for any length of time, sweet and wholesome. Some delicacy, similar to the savoury meat which Isaac loved, may here be intended; sent to Jacob in consideration of his age, and to testify the respect of his son; for of other kinds of meat he could have no need, as he had large flocks and herds, and could kill a lamb, kid, etc. when he pleased.
overcome <07264> [See that.]
Joseph <03130> [Joseph.]
ruler <04910> [and he is.]
stunned <03820> [And Jacob's. Heb. And his.]
believe <0539> [he believed.]
spirit <07307> [the spirit.]
Enough <07227> [It is enough.]
Beer Sheba <0884> [A.M. 2298. B.C. 1706. Beer-sheba.]
offered <02076> [and offered.]
God <0430> [unto.]
vision <04759> [in the visions.]
Jacob Jacob <03290> [Jacob.]
God <0430> [the God.]
afraid .... down <03372 03381> [fear not.]
make <07760> [I will.]
down <03381> [will go.]
myself .... bring ... back <05927> [and I will.]
Joseph <03130> [and Joseph.]
This last and most solemn office, as Mr. Hewlett observes, that could be paid to a parent, was generally performed by the nearest relation of the deceased. This promise must have given great consolation to the venerable patriarch's mind.
Jacob ............... Jacob <03290> [Jacob.]
[in the waggons.]
Egypt <04714> [into Egypt.]
names <08034> [the names.]
Reuben <07205> [Reuben.]
Simeon <08095> [Simeon.]
Jemuel <03223> [Jemuel. or, Nemuel.]
Jakin <03199> [Jachin. or, Jarib.]
Zohar <06714> [Zohar. or, Zerah.]
Canaanite <03669> [Canaanitish.]
Levi <03878> [Levi.]
Gershon <01648> [Gershon. or, Gershom.]
Judah <03063> [Judah.]
Issachar <03485> [Issachar.]
Puah <06312> [Phuvah. or, Puah.]
Jashub <03102> [Job. or, Jashub.]
Zebulun <02074> [Zebulun.]
Leah <03812> [Leah.]
Paddan Aram <06307> [Padanaram.]
daughter ..... daughters <01323> [with his.]
sons ... Gad <01121 01410> [sons of.]
Zephon <06837> [Ziphion. or, Zephon.]
Ezbon <0675> [Ezbon. or, Ozni.]
Arodi <0722> [Arodi. or, Arod.]
Asher <0836> [Asher.]
Zilpah <02153> [Zilpah.]
Rachel <07354> [Rachel.]
Joseph <03130> [Joseph.]
Manasseh <04519> [Manasseh.]
priest <03548> [priest. or, prince.]
sons <01121> [the sons.]
Ehi <0278> [Ehi.]
[Ahiram. Muppim.]
[Shupham.]
[Shuppim. Huppim.]
[Hupham.]
Dan <01835> [Dan.]
Hushim <02366> [Hushim.]
[Shuham.]
Naphtali <05321> [Naphtali.]
Jahziel <03183> [Jahzeel.]
[Jahziel.]
Bilhah <01090> [Bilhah.]
<03409> [loins. Heb. thigh.]
seventy <07657> [threescore and ten.]
Threescore and six were before mentioned, (ver. 26,) so that Joseph and his two sons, together with Jacob himself, complete the seventy persons here enumerated; and the number in ver. 15, 18, 22, and 25 amount to that number. The addition of five persons in the LXX. in ver. 20, was either the cause or the consequence of another difference here; for in that version the number is seventy-five ver. 15, 18, 22, 25.
Judah <03063> [Judah.]
accompany him <03384> [to direct.]
Goshen ......... Goshen <01657> [Goshen.]
Goshen seems to have been a city, after which the land of Goshen was called. The LXX. render it by [Heroonpolis,] Heroonpolis, "city of Heroon;" which by some writers is simply called Heroum, and is by the ancient geographers placed in the eastern part of Egypt, not far from the Arabian Gulf.
chariot <04818> [his chariot.]
hugged ... neck ...... neck <05307 06677> [fell on.]
shepherds <07462> [shepherds.]
livestock <04735> [their trade hath been to feed cattle. Heb. they are men of cattle.]
brought <0935> [and they.]
occupation <04639> [What is.]
servants <05650> [Thy servants.]
care <07462> [for every.]
From the fragments of Manetho, preserved in Josephus and Africanus, it appears that hordes of marauders, call {hycassos,} or shepherd kings, whose chief occupation, like the Bedouin Arabs of the present day, was to keep flocks, made a powerful irruption into Egypt, which they subdued, and ruled, by a succession of kings, with great tyranny for 259 years. Hence the persons, and even the very name of shepherds were execrated, and held in the greatest odium by the Egyptians.
Joseph <03130> [Joseph.]
land ......... land <0776> [in the land.]
introduced <03322> [presented.]
occupation <04639> [What is.]
care <07462> [shepherds.]
live as temporary residents <01481> [For to.]
famine <07458> [for the famine.]
servants .................. servants <05650> [let thy.]
before <06440> [is.]
Goshen <01657> [Goshen.]
men <02428 0582> [men of activity.]
{Anshey chayil,} men of strength, power, ability, or prowess. It implies both fitness of mind and body; and so valour, prudence, diligence, and virtue.
charge <08269> [rulers.]
livestock <04735> [cattle]
{Mikneh}, from {kanah}, to posses, signifies property or possession of any kind, though it frequently is used for cattle, because in ancient times they constituted the principal part of a man's possessions.
Jacob ....... Jacob <03290> [And Jacob.]
How ..... lived <04100 02416> [How old art thou. Heb. How many are the days of the years of thy life?]
All ......... All <03117> [The days.]
[and hundred.]
<05381> [have not.]
Rameses <07486> [Rameses.]
provided <03557> [nourished.]
father ....... father's <01> [his father.]
according ....... little children <06310 02945> [according to their families. or, as a little child is nourished. Heb. according to the little ones.]
land ......... land ...... land <0776> [A.M. 2300. B.C. 1704. so that.]
wasted away <03856> [fainted.]
money ............................. money <03701> [the money.]
Joseph .............................. Joseph brought <0935 03130> [Joseph brought.]
Give ... food <03051 03899> [A.M. 2301. B.C. 1703. Give us bread.]
bring ... livestock ............ livestock <03051 04735> [Give your cattle.]
This was the wisest measure that could be adopted, both for the preservation of the people and the cattle. As the people had not grain for their own sustenance, consequently they could have none for their cattle: hence they were in the most imminent danger of starving; and the people also were in equal danger; as they must have divided a portion of that bought for themselves with the cattle, which, for the sake of tillage, etc., they wished of course to preserve till the seven years' famine should end.
horses <05483> [for horses.]
food .................. got ... through ....... food <05095 03899> [fed them. Heb. led them.]
[A.M. 2302. B.C. 1702.]
land Buy ..... land .......... land .................. land <07069 0127> [buy us.]
Give <05414> [and give.]
[A.M. 2303. B.C. 1701.]
people <05971> [And as.]
It is highly probable, that Joseph was influenced by no political motive in removing the people to the cities, but merely by motives of prudence and humanity; for, as the corn was laid up in the cities, it would be more eligible to bring then from distant towns and villages to places where they might be more conveniently supplied with food.
<05892> [to cities.]
priests .... priests <03548> [of the priests. or, princes.]
priests .... priests <03548> [for the priests.]
bought <07069> [bought.]
seed <02233> [here is seed.]
one-fifth ..... Pharaoh <02549 06547> [the fifth part.]
lives <02421> [Thou hast.]
showing <04672> [let us.]
So ... made it ... statute <07760 02706> [made it a law.]
From this history, and from Diodorus Siculus (lib. i.), we learn that the land of Egypt was divided into three parts: one belonged to the Priests, (ver. 22, 26;) a second was the king's, (which appears to have been the land of Rameses, or Goshen, ver. 11;) the remainder was the subjects'. Now Joseph, having purchased the land of the people (ver. 19, 20), restored it, on the condition of their paying a fifth part of the produce to the king, beyond which he appears to have made no demand.
Only <07535> [except.]
priests <03548> [priests. or, princes.]
settled <03427> [dwelt.]
fruitful <06509> [grew.]
seventeen <06240> [A.M. 2315. B.C. 1689. seventeen.]
life <02416> [the whole age. Heb. the days of the years of his life.]
die <04191> [must die.]
put <07760> [put.]
show ... kindness <02617 06213> [deal kindly.]
bury .... Egypt <06912 04714> [bury me not.]
Swear ....... do <07650> [Swear.]
Israel bowed <07812 03478> [And Israel bowed.]
As {shachah,} which primarily signifies to bow, denotes also to worship; and as {mittah,} a bed, pronounced {matteh,} is a staff; the LXX. have taken the passage in the latter sense, and rendered it [kai prosekun‚sen Israel epi to akron t‚s rabdou autou,] "and Israel worshipped upon the top of his staff," which is literally copied by the apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Hebrews. The present reading is, however, supported by the Masoretic pointing and the Targums; and is most probably correct, as it would appear that Jacob was confined to his bed.
father <01> [thy father.]
two sons <01121 08147> [his two sons.]
regained <02388> [strengthened.]
God <0410> [God.]
appeared <07200> [appeared.]
Luz <03870> [Luz.]
fruitful <06509> [Behold I.]
make ........... give <05414> [will give.]
everlasting <05769> [everlasting.]
two sons <01121 08147> [two sons.]
Reuben <07205> [are mine.]
Reuben <07205> [Reuben.]
listed <07121> [and shall be called.]
Paddan <06307> [Padan.]
Rachel <07354> [Rachel.]
[to Ephrath.]
sons <01121> [my sons.]
bless <01288> [bless them.]
eyes <05869> [the eyes.]
failing <03513> [dim. Heb. heavy.]
kissed <05401> [kissed.]
expected <06419> [I had not.]
God <0430> [God.]
bowed ..... face <07812 0639> [he bowed himself.]
Joseph thus shewed that his external greatness did not render him forgetful of the respect due to his father. The Egyptians were remarkable for the reverence paid to old age: "for if a young person meet his senior, he instantly turns aside to make way for him; if an aged person enter an apartment, the youth always rise from their seats;" and Mr. Savary observes, that the same reverence is still paid to old age in Egypt.
right hand <03225> [his right hand.]
placed <07896> [and laid.]
<07919> [guiding.]
firstborn <01060> [firstborn.]
blessed <01288> [blessed.]
walked <01980> [did walk.]
shepherd .... life <07462 05750> [fed me.]
Angel <04397> [Angel.]
who has protected <01350> [redeemed.]
name ........ name <08034> [my name.]
grow .... multitude <01711 07230> [grow into. Heb. as fishes do increase.]
Fish are the most prolific of all animals: a tench lays 1,000 eggs, a carp 20,000, and Leuwenhoek counted in a middling sized cod, 9,384,000.
multitude <07230> [a multitude.]
placed ... right <07896 03225> [laid his.]
took <03415 08551> [displeased him. Heb. was evil in his eyes.]
father ..... father <01> [Not so.]
firstborn <01060> [for this.]
said ... know ..... know <03045 0559> [said, I know it.]
nation ......................... multitude <05971 04393> [become.]
multitude <04393> [multitude. Heb. fulness.]
blessed ......... Israel bless <01288 03478> [Israel bless.]
make ......... put <07760> [and he set.]
die <04191> [Behold.]
God <0430> [God.]
land <0776> [land.]
give <05414> [given.]
Amorites <0567> [Amorite.]
Gather together <0622> [Gather.]
future <03117 0319> [last days.]
listen ...... listen <08085> [hearken.]
firstborn <01060> [my firstborn.]
might <03581> [my might.]
destructive <06349> [Unstable.]
excel <03498> [thou shalt not excel. Heb. do not thou excel.]
got ........... got <05927> [because.]
got ........... got .... couch <03326 05927> [he went up to my couch. or, my couch is gone.]
Simeon <08095> [Simeon.]
weapons <03627> [instruments, etc. or, their swords are weapons of violence.]
soul <05315> [O my soul.]
come <0935> [come.]
council <05475> [secret.]
assembly <06951> [unto their.]
heart <03519> [honour.]
men <0376> [a man.]
hamstrung oxen <07794 06131> [digged down a wall. or, houghed oxen.]
Cursed <0779> [Cursed.]
divide <02505> [I will divide.]
praise <03034> [shall praise.]
hand <03027> [thy hand.]
neck <06203> [the neck.]
father's <01> [thy father's.]
lion's .................... lion <0738> [a lion's.]
<03766> [he stooped.]
scepter <07626> [sceptre.]
ruler's staff <02710> [lawgiver.]
feet <07272> [between.]
<03588> [until.]
obey <03349> [the gathering.]
foal <05895> [his foal.]
wash <03526> [he washed.]
resting place <04496> [rest.]
bend <05186> [bowed.]
snake <05175> [shall be.]
viper <08207> [an adder. Heb. an arrow-snake.]
[Nepthalim.]
fruitful .... fruitful <06509> [a fruitful.]
branches <01323> [branches. Heb. daughters.]
bow <07198> [his bow.]
skillful <06339> [were made.]
Mighty One <046> [the mighty.]
Shepherd <07462> [the shepherd.]
Rock <068> [the stone.]
God <0410> [the God.]
sovereign <07706> [the Almighty.]
blessings ...... blessings ......... blessings <01293> [with blessings.]
greater than <01396> [have prevailed.]
age-old hills <01389 05769> [everlasting hills.]
head <07218> [they shall.]
prince <05139> [was separate.]
ravenous <02963> [ravin.]
wolf <02061> [a wolf.]
evening <06153> [at night.]
twelve <06240> [the twelve.]
go <0622> [gathered.]
Bury ..... fathers <06912 01> [bury me.]
cave <04631> [in the cave.]
Ephron <06085> [Ephron.]
Abraham bought <07069 085> [Abraham bought.]
finished <03615> [had made.]
breathed ... last breath <01478> [and yielded.]
Then ... hugged <05307> [fell.]
wept <01058> [wept.]
physicians ........... physicians <07495> [the physicians.]
The Hebrew {ropheim,} from {rapha,} to heal, is literally the healers, those whose business it was to heal, or restore the body from sickness, by administering proper medicines; and when death took place, to heal or preserve it from decomposition by embalming. The word {chanat,} to embalm, is also used in Arabic to express the reddening of leather; somewhat analogous to our tanning; which is probably the grand principal in embalming.
embalm ....... embalmed <02590> [embalmed.]
forty days ....... time ........... days <03117 0705> [forty days.]
We learn from the Greek historians, that the time of mourning was while the body remained with the embalmers, which Herodotus says was seventy days. During this time the body lay in nitre, the use of which was to dry up all its superfluous and noxious moisture: and when, in the space of 30 days, this was sufficiently effected, the remaining forty, the time mentioned by Diodorus, were employed in anointing it with gums and spices to preserve it, which was properly the embalming. This sufficiently explains the phraseology of the text.
<01058> [mourned. Heb. wept. three-score.]
days <03117> [the days.]
Joseph <03130> [Joseph.]
found favor <02580 04672> [found grace.]
swear <07650> [made me.]
die <02009 04191> [Lo, I die.]
dug <03738> [I have.]
Bury ...................... bury <06912> [bury me.]
go <05927> [let me go.]
swear <07650> [as he made.]
up ......... went <05927> [and with him.]
little children <02945> [only their.]
Chariots <07393> [chariots.]
threshing floor <01637> [the threshingfloor.]
This place was situated, according to Jerome, between the Jordan and the city of Jericho, two miles from the former, and three from the latter, where Bethagla was afterwards built. Procopius of Gaza states the same. As {aataad} signifies thorns, the place might have been remarkable for their production; though all the versions except the Arabic consider it as a proper name. As Moses wrote or revised his history on the east side of Jordan, the term beyond Jordan, in his five books, means westward of Jordan; but in other parts of Scripture it generally means eastward.
side <05676> [beyond.]
seven day <07651 03117> [seven days.]
Canaanites <03669> [the Canaanites.]
Abel Mizraim <067> [Abel-mizraim. i.e., The mourning of the Egyptians.]
beyond ... Jordan <03383 05676> [beyond Jordan.]
cave <04631> [the cave.]
father <01> [their father.]
Joseph's ............. Joseph <03130> [Joseph.]
So ... sent .......... instructions <06680> [sent. Heb. charged.]
forgive .................... forgive <05375> [Forgive.]
treated <01580> [they did.]
servants <05650> [servants.]
wept <01058> [wept.]
threw <05307> [fell.]
afraid ........ God <03372 0430> [fear not.]
God <0430> [for am I.]
It belongs to God to execute vengeance, and Joseph did not intend to usurp his prerogative. Thus he instructed his brethren not to fear him, but to fear God; to humble themselves before God, and to seek his forgiveness.
meant ....... intended <02803> [ye thought.]
meant ...... God intended <0430 02803> [God meant.]
provide <03557> [I will nourish.]
kindly <03820> [kindly unto them. Heb. to their hearts.]
110 <03967> [an hundred.]
Joseph's life was the shortest of all the patriarchs; for which Bp. Patrick gives this reason, he was the son of his father's old age.
descendants ............ children ..... son <01121> [the children.]
special inheritance rights <03205> [brought up. Heb. born. Joseph's.]
die <04191> [I die.]
surely ...... lead ... up <06485 05927> [visit you.]
up <05927> [you out.]
swore <07650> [sware.]
oath <07650> [took an.]
come .... Then ....... up <05927> [and ye.]
110 <03967 06235 08141 01121> [being an hundred and ten years old.]
{Ben meah weÆ’iser shanim;} "the son of an hundred and ten years;" the period he lived being personified.
embalmed <02590> [they embalmed.]
CONCLUDING REMARKS. Thus terminates the Book of Genesis, the most ancient record in the world; including the History of two grand and stupendous subjects, Creation and Providence; of each of which it presents a summary, but astonishingly minute and detailed accounts. From this Book, almost all the ancient philosophers, astronomers, chronologists, and historians have taken their respective data; and all the modern improvements and accurate discoveries in different arts and sciences, have only served to confirm the facts detailed by Moses, and to shew, that all the ancient writers on these subjects have approached, or receded from, truth and the phenomena of Nature, in exactly the same proportion as they have followed or receded from, the Mosaic history. The great fact of the deluge is fully confirmed by the fossilised remains in every quarter of the globe. Add to this, that general traditions of the deluge have veen traced among the Egyptians, Chinese, Japanese, Hindoos, Burmans, ancient Goths and Druids, Mexicans, Peruvians, Brazilians, North American Indians, Greenlanders, Otaheiteans, Sandwich Islanders, and almost every nation under heaven; while the allegorical turgidity of these distorted traditions sufficiently distinguishes them from the unadorned simplicity of the Mosaic narrative. In fine, without this history the world would be in comparative darkness, not knowing whence it came, nor whither it goeth. In the first page, a child may learn more in an hour, than all the philosophers in the world learned without it in a thousand years.
Genesis 9:24
Genesis 10:1
account <08435> [are the.]
sons ...... Sons <01121> [and unto.]
Genesis 10:1
account <08435> [are the.]
sons ...... Sons <01121> [and unto.]
Genesis 20:1
Negev <05045> [A.M. cir. 2107. B.C. cir. 1897. from.]
Kadesh <06946> [Kadesh.]
Gerar <01642> [Gerar.]
Gerar was a city of Arabia Petr‘a, under a king of the Philistines, 25 miles from Eleutheropolis beyond Daroma, in the south of Judah. From ch. 10:19, it appears to have been situated in the angle where the south and west sides of Canaan met, and to have been not far from Gaza. Jerome, in his Hebrew Traditions on Genesis, says, from Gerar to Jerusalem was three days' journey. There was a wood near Gerar, spoken of by Theodoret; and a brook, (ch. 26:26,) on which was a monastery, noticed by Sozomen.
Matthew 12:22-24
they brought <4374> [was.]
healed <2323> [he healed.]
blind <5185> [blind.]
crowds <3793> [the people.]
Pharisees <5330> [when.]
Beelzebul <954> [Beelzebub. Gr. Beelzebul, and so.]
