Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review (Volume 13) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen," trasb "? (Gen. 44: 9,17). " And he said, He shall be my servant" 1a5. " Let thy servant abide instead of the lad, a bondman to my lord," "mb 1a3 (Gen. 44: 33). It signifies here the most degraded slavery, but it was a slavery into which the brethren of Joseph well knew they had themselves, many years previous, most diabolically sold their own brother, for twenty pieces of silver. They were now threatened with the same bondage. Condition of the Israelites in Eg-ypt. The question next arises, in the order of the history, whether any of the great store of servants spoken of as formerly belonging to Jacob's household, went down with him into Egypt to settle there. No mention is made of them, and only his own posterity are particularized in the census. " And Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him. His sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt" (Gen. 46: 5, 7). " All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls threescore and six (46:26). The enumeration here is simply all that came out of Jacob's loins; it does not prove that none others were with them; and Joseph is said to have " nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families" (47:12). ma-bsnx']. Joseph's own enumeration to Pharaoh was: " My father, and my brethren, and their flocks...