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

מטה mı̂ṭṭāh — “bed.” מטה maṭṭeh…

My pilgrimage. —Hebrew, my sojournings; and similarly at the end of the verse. The idea of a pilgrimage is a modern one. …

Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. Jacob may seem here to complain that he had lived only a short time, and that, in…

Jacob said to Pharaoh, the days of the years of my
pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years