Genesis 41:45

And Pharaoh turned the name of Joseph, and called him by the Egyptian language, The Saviour of the World + 41:45 In Hebrew, it is showing privates’, as Jerome and Lira here say. (In Hebrew, it is ‘The one showing secrets’, or revealing mysteries, as Jerome and Nicholas of Lira say here.), (or And Pharaoh changed Joseph’s name, and called him in the Egyptian language, Zaphnathpaaneah); and he gave to Joseph a wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah, a priest of Heliopolis, that is, The City of the Sun. And so Joseph went out (in)to the land of Egypt.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

In Context

44And the king said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, (and) without thy behest no man shall stir hand either foot in all the land of Egypt.

46Forsooth Joseph was of thirty years, when he stood in the sight of king Pharaoh, and compassed all the countries of Egypt. (And Joseph was thirty years old, when he stood before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and then went forth through all the countryside.)

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Cross References

Genesis 14:18And soothly Melchizedek, (the) king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the highest God (or for he was the priest of the Most High God);

Exodus 2:16Forsooth seven daughters were to the priest of Midian, that came to draw water; and when the troughs were filled, they coveted to water their father’s flocks. (Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. One day, as Moses sat beside a well, they came to draw some water; and when the troughs were filled, they desired to water their father’s flocks.)

2 Samuel 20:26and Ira of Jairites was the priest of David.

Ezekiel 30:17The young men of Heliopolis and of Bubastis shall fall down by sword, and those cities shall be led captives (or and these cities shall go into captivity).

Luke 2:1And it was done in those days, a commandment went out from the emperor Augustus [or a commandment went out from Caesar Augustus], that all the world should be described (or that a census should be taken throughout the Empire).

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:34-46

Joseph's Exaltation. ( b. c. 1715.) 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which… Read the whole commentary →

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