Genesis 46

Genesis 46:3

FEare not] Because it was fore-told, that Gods people should be afflicted in Egypt, Genesis 15:13. and Abraham had beene injured there, Genesis 12:15. And that God in the time of the like dearth had forbidden Isaac to goe thither Genesis 26:2. and lastly, because that Canaan was become already as it were his owne native countrey.

Genesis 46:4

I will goe downe] I will accompany thee with my grace and favour bring thee] Not that Jacob did ever return out of Egypt, but it is spoken of his posterity, which was brought from thence in its due time: or it might be spoken of his body which was brought back againe into the Land of Canaan, to thy S pulcher of his Fathers, in token of the right which he had to the Countrey, Genesis 50:13 shall put]That is to say, shall close up thine eyes; so he assureth him that Joseph is living, and comforts him by telling him of the good offices he should doe unto him, and how hee should out-live him, which is the Parents desire.

Genesis 46:7

His daughters] That is to say his daughters in law with Dina, Genesis 37:35.

Genesis 46:8

Which c〈…〉e] That were mustered in the first mustering, that was afer Jacobs comming into Egypt: for otherwise many of these were borne in Egypt.

Genesis 46:10

J〈…〉l] Also called Nemuel, Numbers 26:12. So many of these names doe vary in Numbers, and in the Chronicles, for some unknowne reason.

Genesis 46:12

Hzron] These were borne in Egypt. Now the sonnes of Shela and Zerah, which are set downe, Num. 26 20. are here left out, because they were not born when these were set downe.

Genesis 46:15

The sonnes] and Grand-children And his daughters] Not that Dina, and his sonnes wives, were comprehended within this number of thirty three, but hee would onely say, that his sonnes were marryed, and had brought their Wives with them into Egypt.

Genesis 46:18

These se bare] Namely Gd and Ashe: from whom came the aforesayd Grand-children Sixteene] Not counting Sera, the aforesaid daughter of Asher, as Dinab also was not numbred, as verse fifteenth.

Genesis 46:19

Wise] See Genesis 44:27.

Genesis 46:21

Belah] All these, or the greatest part of them were also borne in Egypt, for Benjunin was not above three and twenty yeares of age, when he came into Egypt: and besides, they were not all his sons, but his Grand-children, as it appeareth Numbers 26:40. Of which he could not have any yet neyther.

Genesis 46:26

Threescore and six] To bring this number within compasse, wee must exclude Joseph, and his two children, which were in Egypt, and did not come with Jacob, and Er, and Onan which dyed in Canaan, and then we must adde Dinah unto it.

Genesis 46:27

Which came] Either in their owne persons or their fathers Threescore and ten] Joyning to the fore-sayd threescore and sixe, Jacob, and Joseph, and his two sonnes. Now Acts 7:14. there is the number of seventy five, because that the Greeke version of the seventie Interpreters, which was then in use amongst the Jewes, hath added in the twentieth verse of this Chapter, sive nephewes to Joseph.

Genesis 46:30

Let me die] I have now obtained that, which might makes me desire, to live more than any thing else, now will I dye contented and comforted. See Luke 2:29.

Genesis 46:34

That ye may] To enjoy the fruitfulnesse of the pastures, and principally by these means to bee severed from the corruptions of the Egyptians and to keep you in an united body, in purenesse of religion, and manners; Every shepheard] Those that did use grazing, for to eate the flesh of cattell, which the Aegyptians did not do: Genesis 43:32. Exodus 8:26. And though they did bring up cattel: Gen. 47. 6. 17. and Exo. the 9. 3. yet they made no use of them, but only for the wooll, the tilling of the earth, to carry, and to trade with strangers.