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Verse Genesis 47:31. _AND ISRAEL BOWED HIMSELF UPON THE BED'S HEAD._]
Jacob was now both old and feeble, and we may suppose him reclined on
his couch when Joseph came; that he afterwards sat up erect...
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- Jacob in Goshen
11. רעמסס _ra‛m__e__sês_, Ra‘meses “son of the sun.”
31. מטה _mı̂ṭṭāh_, “bed.” מטה _maṭṭeh_
“staff.”
Arrangements are now made for the settlement of Israel in Goshen. The
adm...
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CHAPTER 47 THE SETTLEMENT IN GOSHEN
_ 1. Before Pharaoh (Genesis 47:1)_
2. The settlement (Genesis 47:11)
3. Joseph's wise administration (Genesis 47:13)
4. Jacob's request ...
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GENESIS 47:27 TO GENESIS 48:22. JACOB EXTRACTS AN OATH THAT JOSEPH
WILL BURY HIM IN CANAAN, AND BLESSES EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH.
Genesis 47:22 f.,...
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BOWED HIMSELF UPON THE BED'S HEAD— The Septuagint and Syriac
versions render this, _Israel worshipped upon the top of his staff;_
and I see no sort of reason why the Hebrew should not have been
render...
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3. _Joseph as Prime Minister of Egypt_ (Genesis 41:46 to Genesis
47:31)
46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king
of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,...
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_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 TR...
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47:31 head. (a-18) Hebrews 11:21 is according to the LXX. 'the top of
his staff.'...
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JOSEPH PRESENTS HIS BRETHREN AND HIS FATHER TO PHARAOH. HE MAKES
EXTENSIVE CHANGES IN THE LAND TENURE OF EGYPT
6. Rulers over my cattle] The superintendenee of the royal flocks and
herds would be a p...
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BOWED HIMSELF UPON THE BED'S HEAD] perhaps better, 'worshipped,
leaning on the top of his staff,' as in Hebrews 11:21. The Hebrew
words for 'bed' and 'staff' are very like each other....
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 47
JACOB AND HIS SONS MEET *PHARAOH
V1 So Joseph went to *Pharaoh. He said to him, ‘My father and my
brothers have come from *Canaan. They have b...
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ISRAEL BOWED HIMSELF UPON THE BED’S HEAD. — The LXX., followed by
the Epistle to the Hebrews (Genesis 11:21) and the Syriac, read, “on
the top of his staff.” The word in the Hebrew, without vowels, ma...
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JOSEPH VISITS HIS DYING FATHER
Genesis 47:27; Genesis 48:1
How inexorable is the _must_ of death! For many years Jacob had
exceeded the ordinary span of human life, and now, like the last apple
on th...
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To watch Jacob is to see a man who alternated between faith and fear.
Standing before Pharaoh, his faith in God and his consciousness of his
own position in the divine economy were clearly apparent. T...
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JACOB'S FINAL DAYS
The writer gives a brief record of the rest of Jacob's life before he
gives details of the events surrounding the time of his death. Jacob
lived seventeen more years in Egypt and s...
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And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel (k)
bowed himself upon the bed's head.
(k) He rejoiced that Joseph had promised him, and setting himself up
on his pillows, praised God;...
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To the bed's head. St. Paul, (Hebrews xi. 21,) following the Greek
translation of the Septuagint, reads adored the top of his rod. Where
note, that the same word in the Hebrew, according to the differ...
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May we not spiritualize this promise confirmed by an oath? Doth not
JESUS in effect promise the same, to all his people. John 11:25; Hosea
13:14; Hebrews 6:17;...
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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31._And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head_. By this
expression, Moses again affirms that Jacob esteemed it a singular
kindness, that his son should have promised to do what he had required
resp...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 42 THROUGH 47.
At the same time another scene presents itself. His brethren, who had
rejected him, forced by famine, are brought, by the path of repentance
an...
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AND HE SAID, SWEAR UNTO ME,.... This he required, not from any
distrust of Joseph, but to show his own eagerness, and the intenseness
of his mind about this thing, how much he was set upon it, and wha...
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And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed
himself upon the bed's head.
Ver. 31. _And Israel bowed himself._] In way of thankfulness to God,
framing himself to the lowliest g...
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Gen. 47:31. The bowing here spoken of is a bowing of adoration, or a
bowing to worship God, as is confirmed by what is said of David,
parallel to this, 1 Kings 1:47; 1 Kings 1:48, and also by Hebrews...
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1 Ioseph presenteth fiue of his brethren,
7 and his father, before Pharaoh.
11 Hee giueth them habitation and maintenance.
13 He getteth all the Egyptians money,
16 their cattell,
18 their lands...
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And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed
himself upon the bed's head. He was apparently sitting up on his couch
and leaning on his staff, Hebrews 11:21. He now turned to the...
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JOSEPH'S PROMISE TO JACOB...
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EIGHTH SECTION
_Israel’s emigration with his family to Egypt. The settlement in the
land of Goshen. Jacob and Pharaoh. Joseph’s political Economy.
Jacob’s charge concerning his burial at Canaan._
GE...
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In announcing to Pharaoh the coming of his father and his brothers,
Joseph first introduces five of his brothers to him (vs.1-2). We are
not told which ones, but they were likely those who could speak...
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27-31 At last the time drew nigh that Israel must die. Israel, a
prince with God, had power over the Angel, and prevailed, yet must
die. Joseph supplied him with bread, that he might not die by famin...
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ISRAEL BOWED HIMSELF, not to Joseph, who being now not upon his
throne, nor amongst the Egyptians, but in his father's house, was
doubtless more ready to pay that reverence (as he did GENESIS 48:12)
t...
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On which we shall dwell more particularly. There is not in scripture a
more perfect and beautiful type of Christ than Joseph. Whether we view
Christ as the object of the Father's love, the object of t...
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Genesis 47:31 said H559 (H8799) Swear H7650 (H8734) swore H7650
(H8735) Israel H3478 bowed H7812 ...
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THE FAMILY TRIBE PROSPER - JACOB'S PLEA (GENESIS 47:27)
Genesis 47:27
‘And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and
they obtained possessions in it and were fruitful, and multip...
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CONTENTS: Jacob and descendants exalted in Goshen.
CHARACTERS: Pharaoh, Joseph, brothers, Jacob.
CONCLUSION: Notwithstanding former unkindnesses received, the believer
who is prospered in this world...
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Genesis 47:2. _Some of his brethren._ ומקצה _vemi-ketzeh
extremitate,_ as in Montanus, five of the tallest and finest looking
of his brethren; as is the import of the word, Judges 18:2, when
describin...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 47:27 While the Egyptians struggle to
survive during the famine, Jacob’s family grows and prospers. The
idea of being fruitful and multiplying first appears in Genesis 1:22,...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 47:28 Jacob’s approaching death, at age
147, dominates the final chapters of Genesis 1:1. put your hand under
my thig
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 47:29_
ISRAEL’S PREPARATION FOR DEATH
Jacob felt that the inevitable hour was drawing nigh. “The time drew
nigh that Israel must die,”—even this man who h...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 47:28
AND JACOB LIVED IN THE LAND OF EGYPT SEVENTEEN YEARS: SO THE WHOLE AGE
OF JACOB WAS (literally, _the days of Jacob, the years of his life,
were_)_ _AN HUNDRED FORTY AND SEVEN...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the forty-seventh chapter of
Genesis?
Joseph has been sold by his brothers as a slave to the traders going
to Egypt. In Egypt he is resold and purchased by a man nam...
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Swear. Genesis 24:3 And Israel bowed. Genesis 47:29 Genesis 24:26
Genesis 48:1...
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(CF. GENESIS 47:31)— Is there a discrepancy regarding the death of
Jacob?
PROBLEM: Hebrews mentions that Jacob died worshiping, “leaning on
the top of his staff” (11:21). Yet Genesis 47:31 mentions J...