Page:A critical and exegetical commentary on Genesis (1910).djvu/597

 descendants of Joseph (see on v.$20$), makes the total 75 (so Ac. 7$14$), but inadvertently substitutes, instead of , for the of MT $27$, overlooking the fact that both Jacob and Joseph have to be reckoned in the 75.—26. ] 35$11$, Ex. 1$5$.—27. ] [E].

28-30. The meeting of Jacob and Joseph.—28. to direct before him to Goshen] The Heb. here gives no tolerable sense. The meaning cannot be that Judah was to guide the travellers to Goshen, for he is sent straight to Joseph; and for the idea that Joseph was to give the needful instructions for their reception in Goshen (Di.), the expression would be extremely harsh. The only natural purpose of Judah's mission was to bring Joseph to meet his father; and the least difficult course is to read (with Vns. v.i.): to appear before him in Goshen, which had already been indicated by Joseph as the goal of the journey (45$10$).—29. went up] Goshen lying somewhat higher than the Nile-valley.—30. The v. prepares us for the death-bed scenes (47$29ff.$), which in JE must have taken place soon after, not as in P at an interval of 17 years.

'''XLVI. 31-XLVII. 12.—Joseph obtains Pharaoh's permission for his brethren to settle in Goshen.—31-34''' (J). prepares his brethren for an introduction to Pharaoh, in the expectation that by laying stress on their herdsmen's calling they may have the desirable frontier dis-

28. ] [E]G ? S (We. ), which is confirmed by  in the next v. There is no need to take the  in a temporal sense. The construction is pregnant, but otherwise unobjectionable; the tone of superiority assumed by Jacob towards Joseph is hardly a serious difficulty. Ba. thinks that the of G implies a reading 'to meet'); but the Niph. of would rather mean 'to come upon unexpectedly' (Dt. 22$6$, 2 Sa. 18$9$).——] G . Heroöpolis has been shown by the excavations of Naville (Store City of Pithom, etc.$4$, 5 ff.; cf. Gillett in JSBLBL], Dec. 1886, p. 69 ff.) to be Pithom (Ex. 1$11$), now Tell el-Maskhuṭa (see p. 488 above). The Bohairic Vn. substitutes Pethom for the of G. G thus makes the meeting take place at the frontier town in the W. Ṭumīlāt towards the desert (so v.$29$). The reading is noteworthy textually as containing P's name for Goshen.—] [E]VS  (better).—29. ] G (var. .—The is strange; but cf. Ps. 84$5$ (Ru. 1$14$ is not in point).—30. ] S +.

31. ] G om., perhaps rightly.