Genesis 46:28

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26 ^aAll the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, ^bbesides Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all.

27 And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. ^aAll the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.

Jacob Settles in Goshen

28 Then he sent Judah before him to Joseph, ^ato point out before him the way to Goshen. And they came ^bto the land of Goshen.

29 So Joseph made ready his ^achariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and ^bfell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

30 And Israel said to Joseph, ^a“Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.”

31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, ^a“I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

32 And the men are ^ashepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.’

33 So it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ^a‘What is your ^boccupation?’

34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants’ occupation has been with livestock ^afrom our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is ^ban abomination to the Egyptians.”

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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 favorable opinion from the speech he delivered before him, Genesis 44:18, etc.; 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, ' ̔ 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. See Clarke on Genesis 46:34 (note).

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