Genesis 47:6

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4 And they said to Pharaoh, ^a“We have come to dwell in the land, because your servants have no pasture for their flocks, ^bfor the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants ^cdwell in the land of Goshen.”

5 Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

6 ^aThe land of Egypt is before you. Have your father and brothers dwell in the best of the land; let them dwell ^bin the land of Goshen. And if you know any competent men among them, then make them chief herdsmen over my livestock.”

7 Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob ^ablessed Pharaoh.

8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”

9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, ^a“The days of the years of my pilgrimage are ^bone hundred and thirty years; ^cfew and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and ^dthey have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

10 So Jacob ^ablessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

11 And Joseph situated his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of ^aRameses, ^bas Pharaoh had commanded.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Genesis 47:6

In the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell - So it appears that the land of Goshen was the best of the land of Egypt.

Men of activity - anshey chayil , stout or robust men - such as were capable of bearing fatigue, and of rendering their authority respectable.

Rulers over my cattle - mikneh signifies not only cattle, but possessions or property of any kind; though most usually cattle are intended, because in ancient times they constituted the principal part of a man' s property. The word may be taken here in a more extensive sense, and the circumstances of the case seem obviously to require it. If every shepherd was an abomination to the Egyptians, however we may understand or qualify the expression, is it to be supposed that Pharaoh should desire that the brethren of his prime minister, of his chief favorite, should be employed in some of the very meanest offices in the land? We may therefore safely understand Pharaoh as expressing his will, that the brethren of Joseph should be appointed as overseers or superintendents of his domestic concerns, while Joseph superintended those of the state.

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