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

מטה mı̂ṭṭāh — “bed.” מטה maṭṭeh…

Jacob blessed Pharaoh. —The presentation of Jacob to Pharaoh seems to have been a much more solemn matter than that of Joseph’s br…

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father. Although Moses relates, in a continuous narrative, that Jacob was brought to the king, yet I do no…

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father
That is, some time after he had introduced his five brethren, and had gotten …

With the seriousness of old age, the piety of a true believer, and the authority of a patriarch and a prophet, Jacob entreated the Lord to bestow a…