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Genesis 47:10 KJV
Genesis · chapter 47 · verse 10
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.Genesis 47:10 · King James Version
Genesis 47:10 in context
8And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
11And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
12And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- blessedbârakto kneelH1288 →
- PharaohParʻôhParoh, a general title of Egyptian kingsH6547 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- JacobYaʻăqôbJaakob, the Israelitish patriarchH3290 →
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Here is, I. The respect which Joseph, as a subject, showed to his prince. Though he was his favourite, and prime-minister of state, and had had particular orders from him to send for his father down to Egypt, yet he would not suffer him to settle till he had given notice of it to Pharaoh, Gen 47:1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-12