E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 45:20
regard not your stuff. Hebrew let not your eye pity. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. read more
regard not your stuff. Hebrew let not your eye pity. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. read more
commandment. Hebrew mouth, put by Metonymy (of Cause), App-6 , for command given by it. read more
he gave. Compare Genesis 43:34 . read more
Jacob's. Hebrew his. Compare Genesis 45:28 . fainted = began to cease beating. Compare Jacob's fainting, with Israel's "strength", Genesis 45:28 . Genesis 45:27 spirit. Hebrew. ruach, put by Metonymy (OF Cause), lor its manifestations. See App-9 . Jacob. Note this name connected with unbelief (Genesis 45:20 ) and weakness, and read more
Israel, which is used in connection with his strength of faith, and Act 46:1 . Compare Israel's strength, with Jacob's fainting, Genesis 45:26 . read more
"And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 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; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. Now thou art commanded, this do ye: take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your... read more
"And the sons of Jacob did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the way. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. And to his father he sent after this manner: ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way. So he sent his brethren away, and they... read more
"And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father. And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he believed them not. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: and Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go see him before I... read more
Genesis 45:20. Regard not your stuff— The word, which we render stuff, כלי keli, signifies furniture of any kind; whatever is prepared and finished for the use of man. And the expression, which is peculiar in the Hebrew, as the margins of our Bibles shew, seems only to signify, that they should pay no regard to their possessions or moveables in the land of Canaan. Chais translates it, ne regrettez point vos meubles, don't regret or grudge your moveables. The rendering of the Vulgate, leave... read more
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 45:19
Now thou art commanded. Septuagint and Vulgate read "Thou, therefore, command them". wagons. Not yet used in Canaan. Those in Egypt depicted as having two wheels. read more