Genesis 48:9-16
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.]
