Genesis 47:10

After Jacob had blessed Pharaoh, he went out from Pharaoh’s presence.

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And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

In Context

9Jacob answered, “I have lived a hundred and thirty years; few and hard have been the years of my life, and they have not been as many as those that my ancestors lived on earth.”

11So Joseph gave his father and his brothers a place to live in and a home in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, near Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

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Cross References

Genesis 14:19He blessed him saying: Blessed be Abram before God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

Joshua 14:13So Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his property.

Psalms 119:46I will speak of your charge before kings, and will not be ashamed thereof.

Hebrews 7:7Now no one can dispute that it is the superior who blesses the inferior.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 47:2-13

Pharaoh's Generosity; Jacob Presented to Pharaoh. ( b. c. 1706.) 1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They… Read the whole commentary →

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