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Genesis 47
In this chapter we have instances,
I. Of Joseph's kindness to his relations, presenting his brethren
first, and then his father to Pharaoh, ver. 1-10. setting them in
Goshen, and providing for them there, ver. 11, 12. paying his
respects to his father when he sent for him, ver. 27-31.
II. Of Joseph's justice between prince and people in a very critical
affair; selling Pharaoh's corn to his subjects with reasonable profit
to Pharaoh, and yet without any wrong to them, ver. 13-26.
Verse 3. What is your occupation? - Pharaoh takes it for granted they
had something to do. All that have a place in the world should
have an employment in it according to their capacity, some
occupation or other. Those that need not work for their bread, yet
must have something to do to keep them from idleness.
Verse
4. To sojourn in the land are we cane - Not to settle there for ever;
only to sojourn, while the famine prevailed so in Canaan, which
lay high, that it was not habitable for shepherds, the grass being
burnt up much more than in Egypt, which lay low, and where the
corn chiefly failed, but there was tolerable good pasture.
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8. How old art thou? - A question usually put to old men, for it is
natural to us to admire old age, and to reverence it. Jacob's
countenance no doubt shewed him to be old, for be had been a
man of labour and sorrow. In Egypt people were not so long-lived
as in Canaan, and therefore Pharaoh looks upon Jacob with
Verse
wonder.
9. Observe
1. Jacob calls his life a pilgrimage, looking upon himself as a
stranger in this world, and a traveler towards another. He
reckoned himself not only a pilgrim now he was in Egypt, a
strange country in which he never was before, but his life even in
the land of his nativity was a pilgrimage.
2. He reckoned his life by days; for even so it is soon reckoned,
and we are not sure of the continuance of it for a day to an end,
but may be turned out of this tabernacle at less than an hours
warning.
3. The character he gives of them was,
(1.) That they were few. Though he had now lived 130 years, they
seemed to him but as a few days, in comparison of the days of
eternity, in which a thousand years are but as one day;
(2.) That they were evil. This is true concerning man in general,
Job xiv, 1, he is of few days and full of trouble: Jacob's life
particularly had been made up of evil days. the pleasantest days of
his life were yet before him.
(3.) That they were short of the days of his fathers; not so many,
not so pleasant as their days. Old age came sooner upon him than
it had done upon some of his ancestors.
Verse 10. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh - Which was not only an act of
civility but an act of piety; he prayed for him, as one having the
authority of a prophet and a patriarch: and a patriarch's blessing
was not a thing to be despised, no not by a potent prince.
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21. He removed them to cities - He transplanted them, to shew
Pharaoh's sovereign power over them, and that they might, in
time, forget their titles to their lands, and be the easier reconciled
to their new condition of servitude. How hard soever this seems to
have been upon them, they themselves were sensible of it as a
great kindness, and were thankful they were not worse used.
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28. Jacob lived seventeen years after he came into Egypt, far
beyond his own expectation: seventeen years he had nourished
Joseph, for so old he was when he was sold from him, and now,
seventeen years Joseph nourished him. Observe how kindly
Providence ordered Jacob's affairs; that when he was old, and
least able to bear care and fatigue, he had least occasion for it,
being well provided for by his son without his own forecast.
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29. And the time drew nigh that Israel must die - Israel, that had
power over the angel, and prevailed, yet must yield to death. He
died by degrees; his candle was not blown out, but gradually burnt
down, so that he saw, at some distance, the time drawing nigh. He
would be buried in Canaan, not because Canaan was the land of
his nativity, but in faith, because it was the land of promise, which
he desired thus, as it were to keep possession of 'till the time
should come when his posterity should be masters of it: and
because it was a type of heaven, that better country, which he was
in expectation of. When this was done, Israel bowed himself upon
the bed's head - Worshipping God, as it is explained, Heb. xi, 21,
giving God thanks for all his favours, and particularly for this, that
Joseph was ready, to put his hand upon his eyes. Thus they that go
down to the dust should, with humble thankfulness, bow before
God, the God of their mercies.
Chapter 47:
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