Genesis 46:28 - Exposition

And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph (the noble qualities displayed by Judah had manifestly secured, as they had Certainly merited, the affectionate admiration and hearty confidence of the aged patriarch), to direct his face unto Goshen ;— i.e. that Joseph might supply him with the necessary instructions for conducting the pilgrims to their appointed settlement (Dathius, Rosenmüller, Keil, Lange, Ainsworth, Murphy, 'Speaker's Commentary'), rather than that Joseph might meet him in Goshen ( LXX ; Vulgate, Samaritan, Kalisch)— and (having received the necessary directions) they came into the land of Goshen. The LXX . read εἴς γῆν Ῥαμεσσῆ, as in Genesis 47:11 .