GENESIS—NOTE ON Genesis 46:2 Before Jacob leaves for Egypt, God speaks to him in a vision at night (v. Genesis 46:2). Previously, God had forbidden Isaac to go to Egypt during a famine (Genesis 26:1). I will also bring you up again is both a promise of the exodus from Egypt (like Genesis 15:13) and a reassurance that Jacob himself will be buried in the Promised Land.

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