Genesis 46:29 - Exposition

And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him ;—literally, he ( i.e. Joseph) appeared (the niph. form of the verb, which is commonly used of the appearance of God or his angels, being here employed to indicate the glory in which Joseph came to meet his father: Keil) unto him, vie ; Jacob— and he fell on his neck ,— i.e. Joseph fell upon Jacob's neck ( LXX ; Vulgate, Calvin, Dathe, Keil, and commentators generally), though Maimonides regards Jacob as the subject of the verb fell— and wept on his neck a good while —in undoubted transports of joy, feeling his soul by those delicious moments abundantly recompensed for all the tears he had shed since he parted from his father in Hebron, upwards of twenty years before.