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and, behold, they <i>are</i> in the land of Goshen.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-1.htm" title="Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.">Genesis 47:1</a></span>. They <span class="ital">are in the land of Goshen — </span>Either to abide there, or to remove thence to any other place which thou shalt appoint for them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="2"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-2.htm">Genesis 47:2</a></div><div class="verse">And he took some of his brethren, <i>even</i> five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-2.htm" title="And he took some of his brothers, even five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.">Genesis 47:2</a></span>. <span class="ital">He took some of his brethren — </span>The original words here, literally translated, are, <span class="ital">He took from the end, extremity, </span>or <span class="ital">tail </span>of <span class="ital">his brethren, five men </span>— And some have thought the sense is, He took five of the meanest of them, as to their persons and appearance, as the word <span class="greekheb">קצה</span>is used, <a href="/1_kings/12-31.htm" title="And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.">1 Kings 12:31</a>, lest, if he had presented the goodliest of them, Pharaoh should have required their attendance upon him either at court or in the camp.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="3"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-3.htm">Genesis 47:3</a></div><div class="verse">And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What <i>is</i> your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants <i>are</i> shepherds, both we, <i>and</i> also our fathers.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-3.htm" title="And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.">Genesis 47:3</a></span>. <span class="ital">What is your occupation? — </span>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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="4"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-4.htm">Genesis 47:4</a></div><div class="verse">They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine <i>is</i> sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-4.htm" title="They said morever to Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for your servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.">Genesis 47:4</a></span>. <span class="ital">To sojourn in the land are we come — </span>Not to <span class="ital">settle </span>there for ever; only to <span class="ital">sojourn, </span>while the famine prevailed so in Canaan, which lay high, that it was not habitable for <span class="ital">shepherds, </span>the grass being burned up much more than in Egypt, which lay low, and where the corn chiefly failed, but there was tolerably good pasture. But although Jacob and his sons intended only to sojourn in Goshen or Egypt till the famine should be over, yet first the kindness they received encouraged them to continue, and at last the Egyptians rendered their posterity slaves, and compelled them to stay.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="5"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-5.htm">Genesis 47:5</a></div><div class="verse">And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:</div><A name="6"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-6.htm">Genesis 47:6</a></div><div class="verse">The land of Egypt <i>is</i> before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest <i>any</i> men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-6.htm" title="The land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land make your father and brothers to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if you know any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.">Genesis 47:6</a></span>. <span class="ital">Any man of activity — </span>Literally, according to the Hebrew, <span class="ital">If thou knowest, </span>and <span class="ital">there is among them men of strength or vigour, </span>(<span class="greekheb">חיל</span>,) namely, of body or mind, fit for the employment. From which expression it seems rather probable that those five presented to Pharaoh were of the meaner sort of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="7"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-7.htm">Genesis 47:7</a></div><div class="verse">And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-7.htm" title="And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.">Genesis 47:7</a></span>. <span class="ital">Jacob blessed Pharaoh — </span>Which is repeated, <a href="/genesis/47-10.htm" title="And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.">Genesis 47:10</a>, as being a circumstance very remarkable. And remarkable surely it was that the <span class="ital">greater, </span>for such Pharaoh was in all external things, in wealth, power and glory, <span class="ital">should be blessed of the less, </span><a href="/hebrews/7-7.htm" title="And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.">Hebrews 7:7</a>. But before God, and in reality, Jacob was much greater than Pharaoh. It is probable, therefore, that he not only <span class="ital">saluted him, </span>prayed for and thanked him for all his favours to him and his, all which the original word, here rendered <span class="ital">blessed, </span>often means; but that he blessed him with the authority of a <span class="ital">patriarch </span>and a <span class="ital">prophet: </span>and a patriarch’s blessing was a thing not to be despised, no, not by a potent prince.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="8"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-8.htm">Genesis 47:8</a></div><div class="verse">And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old <i>art</i> thou?</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-8.htm" title="And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old are you?">Genesis 47:8</a></span>. <span class="ital">How old art thou? — </span>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, showed him to be old, for he 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 wonder.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="9"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-9.htm">Genesis 47:9</a></div><div class="verse">And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage <i>are</i> an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-9.htm" title="And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.">Genesis 47:9</a></span>. Observe, 1st, Jacob calls his life a <span class="ital">pilgrimage, </span>looking upon himself as a stranger in this world, and a traveller toward 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 <span class="ital">pilgrimage. </span>2d, He reckoned his life by <span class="ital">days; </span>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 hour’s warning. 3d, The character he gives of them was, 1st, That they were <span class="ital">few.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Though he had now lived one hundred and thirty years, they seemed to him but as a few days, in comparison of the days of many of his ancestors, and especially of the <span class="ital">days of eternity, </span>in which a <span class="ital">thousand years </span>are but as <span class="ital">one day. </span>2d, That they were <span class="ital">evil. </span>This is true concerning man in general, <a href="/job/14-1.htm" title="Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.">Job 14:1</a>, he is of <span class="ital">few days and full of trouble: </span>Jacob’s life particularly had been made up of <span class="ital">evil days; </span>the pleasantest days of his life were yet before him. 3d, 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="10"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-10.htm">Genesis 47:10</a></div><div class="verse">And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.</div><A name="11"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-11.htm">Genesis 47:11</a></div><div class="verse">And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.</div><A name="12"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-12.htm">Genesis 47:12</a></div><div class="verse">And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to <i>their</i> families.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-12.htm" title="And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.">Genesis 47:12</a></span>. <span class="ital">With bread according to their families </span>— <span class="greekheb">לחם לפי השׂ</span>Š, literally, <span class="ital">with bread to the mouth of the little one </span>— That is, as much as every one desired, without any restraint, <span class="ital">mouth </span>being put for <span class="ital">desire, </span>as chap. <a href="/genesis/24-57.htm" title="And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.">Genesis 24:57</a>; <a href="/isaiah/30-2.htm" title="That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!">Isaiah 30:2</a>; or, <span class="ital">as a little child is nourished: </span>he, as it were, put their meat into their very mouths: it was brought to them without any more care or pains of their own, than an infant takes for its food.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="13"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-13.htm">Genesis 47:13</a></div><div class="verse">And <i>there was</i> no bread in all the land; for the famine <i>was</i> very sore, so that the land of Egypt and <i>all</i> the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-13.htm" title="And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.">Genesis 47:13</a></span>. <span class="ital">The land fainted — </span>So the Chaldee renders the word <span class="greekheb">תלה</span>. That is, the spirits of the people were depressed and sunk within them, and their flesh also wasted for want of food. But many critics prefer translating the words, <span class="ital">The land raged, </span>or <span class="ital">became furious. </span>This is commonly the case with the lower class of people in a time of scarcity and famine. Instead of being humbled under the chastening hand of God, they are filled with rage both against him and their governors, and <span class="ital">become furious.</span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld"><a href="/context/genesis/47-19.htm" title="Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate....">Genesis 47:19-25</a>. </span><span class="ital">Wherefore shall we die, we and our land? </span>— Land may be said to <span class="ital">die </span>when it is desolate and barren; or when the fruits of it <span class="ital">die, </span>or, which is the same in effect, do not live and flourish. <span class="ital">Buy us and our land for bread — </span>The severity of the famine brought them to this. To obtain bread they not only readily parted with their money, their cattle, their lands, but even at last sold themselves nay, and thought themselves under great obligations to Joseph that they could, even on these apparently hard terms, obtain food! How thankful we ought to be in this country, that we seldom know, by experience, what either famine or scarcity means!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="14"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-14.htm">Genesis 47:14</a></div><div class="verse">And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.</div><A name="15"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-15.htm">Genesis 47:15</a></div><div class="verse">And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.</div><A name="16"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-16.htm">Genesis 47:16</a></div><div class="verse">And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.</div><A name="17"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-17.htm">Genesis 47:17</a></div><div class="verse">And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread <i>in exchange</i> for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.</div><A name="18"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-18.htm">Genesis 47:18</a></div><div class="verse">When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide <i>it</i> from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:</div><A name="19"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-19.htm">Genesis 47:19</a></div><div class="verse">Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give <i>us</i> seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.</div><A name="20"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-20.htm">Genesis 47:20</a></div><div class="verse">And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.</div><A name="21"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-21.htm">Genesis 47:21</a></div><div class="verse">And as for the people, he removed them to cities from <i>one</i> end of the borders of Egypt even to the <i>other</i> end thereof.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-21.htm" title="And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.">Genesis 47:21</a></span>. <span class="ital">He removed them, </span>&c. — He transplanted them, to show Pharaoh’s sovereign power over them, and that they might, in time, forget their titles to their lands, and be the more easily 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="22"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-22.htm">Genesis 47:22</a></div><div class="verse">Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion <i>assigned them</i> of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.</div><A name="23"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-23.htm">Genesis 47:23</a></div><div class="verse">Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, <i>here is</i> seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.</div><A name="24"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-24.htm">Genesis 47:24</a></div><div class="verse">And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth <i>part</i> unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.</div><A name="25"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-25.htm">Genesis 47:25</a></div><div class="verse">And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.</div><A name="26"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-26.htm">Genesis 47:26</a></div><div class="verse">And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, <i>that</i> Pharaoh should have the fifth <i>part</i>; except the land of the priests only, <i>which</i> became not Pharaoh's.</div><A name="27"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-27.htm">Genesis 47:27</a></div><div class="verse">And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.</div><A name="28"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-28.htm">Genesis 47:28</a></div><div class="verse">And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-28.htm" title="And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.">Genesis 47:28</a></span>. 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 <span class="ital">Joseph nourished him. </span>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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="29"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-29.htm">Genesis 47:29</a></div><div class="verse">And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:</div><span class="bld"><a href="/genesis/47-29.htm" title="And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray you, in Egypt:">Genesis 47:29</a></span>. <span class="ital">And the time drew nigh that Israel must die — Israel, </span>that had power over the angel, and prevailed, yet must <span class="ital">yield to death. </span>He died by degrees; his candle was not blown out, but gradually burned down, so that he saw, at some distance, the time <span class="ital">drawing nigh. </span>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 until 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, <span class="ital">Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head — </span>Worshipping God, as it is explained, <a href="/hebrews/11-21.htm" title="By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning on the top of his staff.">Hebrews 11:21</a>, 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 <span class="ital">down to the dust </span>should, with humble thankfulness, <span class="ital">bow before God, </span>the God of their mercies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="30"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-30.htm">Genesis 47:30</a></div><div class="verse">But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.</div><A name="31"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/genesis/47-31.htm">Genesis 47:31</a></div><div class="verse">And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.</div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Benson Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<br /><br />Text Courtesy of <a href="//biblesupport.com" target="_top">BibleSupport.com</a>. 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