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Genesis
46:1-4.
SACRIFICE AT BEER-SHEBA.
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Verse 1. Israel took his journey
with all that he had--that is, his household; for in
compliance with Pharaoh's recommendation, he left his
heavy furniture behind. In contemplating a step so
important as that of leaving Canaan, which at his time
of life he might never revisit, so pious a patriarch
would ask the guidance and counsel of God. With all his
anxiety to see Joseph, he would rather have died in
Canaan without that highest of earthly gratifications
than leave it without the consciousness of carrying the
divine blessing along with him.
came to Beer-sheba--That place, which was in his
direct route to Egypt, had been a favorite encampment of
Abraham (Genesis
21:33) and Isaac (Genesis
26:25), and was memorable for their experience of
the divine goodness; and Jacob seems to have deferred
his public devotions till he had reached a spot so
consecrated by covenant to his own God and the God of
his fathers.
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Verse 2. God spake unto
Israel--Here is a virtual renewal of the covenant
and an assurance of its blessings. Moreover, here is an
answer on the chief subject of Jacob's prayer and a
removal of any doubt as to the course he was meditating.
At first the prospect of paying a personal visit to
Joseph had been viewed with unmingled joy. But, on
calmer consideration, many difficulties appeared to lie
in the way. He may have remembered the prophecy to
Abraham that his posterity was to be afflicted in Egypt
and also that his father had been expressly told
not to go [Genesis
15:13; 26:2]; he may have feared the contamination
of idolatry to his family and their forgetfulness of the
land of promise. These doubts were removed by the answer
of the oracle, and an assurance given him of great and
increasing prosperity.
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Verse 3. I will there make of thee
a great nation--How truly this promise was
fulfilled, appears in the fact that the seventy souls
who went down into Egypt increased [Ex
1:5-7], in the space of two hundred fifteen years,
to one hundred eighty thousand.
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Verse 4. I will also surely bring
thee up again--As Jacob could not expect to live
till the former promise was realized, he must have seen
that the latter was to be accomplished only to his
posterity. To himself it was literally verified in the
removal of his remains to Canaan; but, in the large and
liberal sense of the words, it was made good only on the
establishment of Israel in the land of promise.
Joseph shall put his hand
upon thine eyes--shall perform the last office of
filial piety; and this implied that he should henceforth
enjoy, without interruption, the society of that
favorite son.
Genesis
46:5-27.
IMMIGRATION TO EGYPT.
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Verse 5. And Jacob rose up from
Beer-sheba--to cross the border and settle in Egypt.
However refreshed and invigorated in spirit by the
religious services at Beer-sheba, he was now borne down
by the infirmities of advanced age; and, therefore, his
sons undertook all the trouble and toil of the
arrangements, while the enfeebled old patriarch, with
the wives and children, was conveyed by slow and
leisurely stages in the Egyptian vehicles sent for their
accommodation.
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Verse 6. goods, which they had
gotten in the land--not furniture, but
substance--precious things.
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Verse 7. daughters--As Dinah
was his only daughter, this must mean daughters-in-law.
all his seed brought he with
him--Though disabled by age from active
superintendence, yet, as the venerable sheik of the
tribe, he was looked upon as their common head and
consulted in every step.
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Verse 8-27. all the souls of the
house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore
and ten--Strictly speaking, there were only
sixty-six went to Egypt; but to these add Joseph and his
two sons, and Jacob the head of the clan, and the whole
number amounts to seventy. In the speech of Stephen (Ac
7:14) the number is stated to be seventy-five; but
as that estimate includes five sons of Ephraim and
Manasseh (1Ch
7:14-20), born in Egypt, the two accounts
coincide.
Genesis
46:28-34.
ARRIVAL IN EGYPT.
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Verse 28. he sent Judah before him
unto Joseph--This precautionary measure was
obviously proper for apprising the king of the entrance
of so large a company within his territories; moreover,
it was necessary in order to receive instruction from
Joseph as to the locale of their future
settlement.
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Verse 29, 30. Joseph made ready his
chariot--The difference between chariot and wagon
was not only in the lighter and more elegant
construction of the former, but in the one being drawn
by horses and the other by oxen. Being a public man in
Egypt, Joseph was required to appear everywhere in an
equipage suitable to his dignity; and, therefore, it was
not owing either to pride or ostentatious parade that he
drove his carriage, while his father's family were
accommodated only in rude and humble wagons.
presented himself unto him--in an
attitude of filial reverence (compare Ex
22:17). The interview was a most affecting one--the
happiness of the delighted father was now at its height;
and life having no higher charms, he could, in the very
spirit of the aged Simeon, have departed in peace [Lu
2:25, 29].
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Verse 31-34. Joseph said,
. . . I will go up, and show Pharaoh--It
was a tribute of respect due to the king to inform him
of their arrival. And the instructions which he gave
them were worthy of his character alike as an
affectionate brother and a religious man.
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Bibliography
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Jamieson, Robert,
D.D. "Commentary on Genesis 46". "Commentary Critical and
Explanatory
on the Whole Bible".
<http://www.studylight.org/com/jfb/view.cgi?book=ge&chapter=46>.
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