Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.
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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Say unto thy brethren: This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
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Passages linked to Genesis 45:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 42:25-26 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them. They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
- Genesis 44:1-2 He commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in his sack’s mouth. Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto…
Gen 45:17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
Ver. 17. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph.] Pharaoh is good to Jacob and his house, for Joseph’s sake; so is God to us and ours, for Jesus’ sake. As any man was intimate with Sejanus, so he found favour with Tiberius. As if any were at odds with him, they lived in continual danger and durance, saith Tacitus; {a} so here.
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O miserabilis humana conditio, et sine Christo, vanum omne quod vivimus, saith Jerome. - Epitaph. Nep., tom. i. p. 25.
O the misery of those that be without Christ in the world!
{a} Ut quisque Seiano intimus, ita ad Caesaris amicitiam validus: contra, quibus infensus esset, metu ac sordibus conflictabantur. - Tacit.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,.... Who, it is highly…
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,.... Who, it is highly probable, waited upon Pharaoh to acquaint him with the coming of his brethren; for it cannot be imagined that Pharaoh should say what follows upon a bare report, without having a further account of things from Joseph, or that he would neglect giving it, but take the first opportunity to inform him, whereupon he gave him the following order:
say unto thy brethren, this do ye; give them directions and instructions to do as follows:
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lade your asses: with provisions for the present necessity of their father's household in Canaan, and for their journey back to Egypt:
and go, get you into the land of Canaan; with all the haste they could make.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren--As Joseph…
Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren--As Joseph might have been prevented by delicacy, the king himself invited the patriarch and all his family to migrate into Egypt; and he made most liberal arrangements for their removal and their subsequent settlement. It displays the character of this Pharaoh to advantage, that he was so kind to the relatives of Joseph; but indeed the greatest liberality he could show could never recompense the services of so great a benefactor of his kingdom.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 17, 18. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say…
Vers. 17, 18. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; and take your father and your households, and come unto me. This may have been an independent invitation given by the Egyptian king to Joseph"s relatives; but it is more than likely that Joseph had already told him of the proposal he had made to his brethren, and that he here receives a royal confirmation of the same). And I will give you the good of the land of Egypt,i.e. the best part of the land, viz., Goshen (Rosenm Lange, and others); though the phrase is probably synonymous with that which followsand ye shall eat the fat of the land. The fat of the land meant either the richest and most fertile portion of it (Lunge, Kalisch), or the best and choicest of its productions (Gesenius, Keil). (Cf. Deu_32:14; Psa_147:14.
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