רעמסס ra‘m^esês — Ra‘meses “son of the sun.”

מטה mı̂ṭṭāh — “bed.” מטה maṭṭeh…

The second year. —Not the second year of the famine, but the year following that in which they had given up their cattle.

They came to him the second year. Moses does not count the second year from the date of the famine, but from the time when the money had r…

When the year was ended, they came unto him the second year ,
&c.] Which seems to be the seventh and last year of th…

With care taken for Jacob and his family—a mercy especially orchestrated by Providence through Joseph's advancement—the account now turns to how th…