Genesis 46:28

_AND HE SENT JUDAH BEFORE HIM UNTO JOSEPH, TO DIRECT HIS FACE UNTO GOSHEN; AND THEY CAME INTO THE LAND OF GOSHEN._ Sent Judah before him unto Joseph. This precautionary measure was obviously proper for apprising the king of the entrance of so large a company within his territories; moreover, it was necessary in order to receive instruction from Joseph as to the locale of their future settlement, and then to act as guide to it (see the note at Genesis 47:6-11)....

28._And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph_. Because Goshen (181) had been selected by Joseph as the abode of his father and his brethren, Jacob now desires, that, on his coming, he may find the place prepared for him: for the expression which Moses uses, implies, not that he requires a house to be built and furnished for him, but only that he may be permitted there to pitch his tent without molestation. For it was necessary that some unoccupied place should be assigned him; lest, by taking possession of the pastures or fields of the inhabitants, he might give them an occasion for exciting a tumult. In the meeting of Jacob with his son Joseph, Moses describes their vehement feeling of joy, to show that the holy Fathers were not destitute of natural affection. It must, however, be remembered that, although the affections spring from good principles, yet they always contract some evil, f...

28-34 It was justice to Pharaoh to let him know that such a family was come to settle in his dominions. If others put confidence in us, we must not be so base as to abuse it by imposing upon them. But how shall Joseph dispose of his brethren? Time was, when they were contriving to be rid of him; now he is contriving to settle them to their advantage; this is rendering good for evil. He would have them live by themselves, in the land of Goshen, which lay nearest to Canaan. Shepherds were an abomination to the Egyptians. Yet Joseph would have them not ashamed to own this as their occupation before Pharaoh. He might have procured places for them at court or in the army. But such preferments would have exposed them to the envy of the Egyptians, and might have tempted them to forget Canaan and the promise made unto their fathers. An honest calling is no disgrace, nor ought we to account it s...

Verse Genesis 46:28. _HE SENT JUDAH BEFORE HIM UNTO JOSEPH_] Judah was certainly a man of sense, and also an eloquent man; and of him Joseph must have had a very favourable opinion from the speech he delivered before him, Genesis 44:18, c. he was therefore chosen as the most proper person to go before and announce Jacob's arrival to his son Joseph. _TO DIRECT HIS FACE UNTO GOSHEN_] The land of Goshen is the same, according to the Septuagint, as the land of Rameses, and Goshen itself the same as Heroopolis, 'Ἡρωων πολις _Heroonpolis_, the _city_ _of heroes_, a name by which it went in the days of the _Septuagint_, and which it still retained in the time of Josephus, for he makes use of the same term in speaking of this place....

- Jacob Goes Down to Egypt 9. פלוּא _pallû'_, Pallu, “distinguished.” חצרן _chetsrôn_, Chetsron, of the “court,” or “village.” כרמי _karmı̂y_, Karmi, “vine-dresser.” 10. ימוּאל _y__e__mû'êl_, Jemuel, “day of El.” ימין _yâmı̂yn_, Jamin, “right hand.” אהד _'ôhad_, Ohad, “joining together.” יכין _yâkı̂yn_, Jakin, “he shall establish.” צחר _tsôchar_, Tsochar, “whiteness.” 11. גרשׁון _gêr__e__shôn_, Gereshon, “expelling.” קהת _q__e__hâth_, Qe

EXPOSITION GENESIS 46:1 AND ISRAEL (as the head of the theocratic family) TOOK HIS JOURNEY—_literally, broke up, _sc. his encampment (cf. Genesis 12:9)—WITH ALL THAT HE HAD, AND CAME—from Hebron (Genesis 37:14)—TO BEERSHEBA,—where Abraham (Genesis 21:33) and Isaac (Genesis 26:25) had both sojourned for considerable periods, and erected altars to Jehovah—AND OFFERED SACRIFICES UNTO THE GOD (the Elohim) of his father Isa

AND HE SENT JUDAH BEFORE HIM UNTO JOSEPH,.... Who was the more honourable of his sons, and in greater esteem with Jacob than his elder brethren were, Reuben, Simeon, and Levi, who by their conduct had greatly displeased him: moreover, he was a man of a polite address, and had endeared himself to Joseph by his speech to him, in which he discovered so much affection both to his father, and his brother Benjamin, and was upon all accounts the fittest person to be sent to Joseph: TO DIRECT HIS FACE UNTO GOSHEN; to inform Joseph of his father's coming, that a place might be prepared for him to dwell in, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem paraphrase it; and particularly to direct what place in Goshen he would have him come to, and meet him at: AND THEY CAME INTO THE LAND OF GOSHEN; which was the first part of the land of Egypt that lay nearest to Canaan: the Greek version of the wh...

CHAPTER 46 JACOB GOES DOWN TO EGYPT _ 1. Israel's departure and the vision (Genesis 46:1)_ 2. The journey and the arrival in Egypt (Genesis 46:5) 3. The offspring of the sons of Jacob (Genesis 46:8) 4. Israel meets Joseph (Genesis 46:28) 5. Joseph's directions concerning Pharaoh (Genesis 46:31 The whole family of Jacob, consisting of seventy souls, exclusive of the wives and the servants, came to Egypt. Once more God appears to Israel, but addresses him as Jacob. He gives him permission to go down to

GENESIS 46:1 TO GENESIS 47:12. JACOB AND HIS DESCENDANTS GO DOWN INTO EGYPT AND SETTLE IN GOSHEN. The list in Genesis 46:8 with the introductory verses Genesis 46:6 f. is from P, as are Genesis 47:5_ a_, Genesis 46:7. The rest is JE. To E belong Genesis 46:1 (in the main) and perhaps Genesis 47:12

SENT JUDAH—TO DIRECT HIS FACE UNTO GOSHEN— Judah, having acted a principal part in this transaction, was dismissed to Joseph, to inform him of his father's arrival, and, as it is in the Hebrew, _to prepare before him Goshen,_ or _in Goshen, i.e._. according to Onkelos, _to prepare a place for his residence in Goshen,_ to receive directions from Joseph in what part of Goshen he should dwell. The LXX has it, _Unto Joseph, to meet him at Heroopolis_ ['Ηρωων πολις] _in the land of Rameses._ And Joseph made ready his chariots, and went up to meet Israel his father at 'Ηρωων πολις (Heroopolis). "The land of Rameses," says Wall, "seems to be another name for the land of Goshen; (ch. Genesis 47:6; Genesis 47:11) and the city to be some city in that land, of which the translators, at Alexandr