John Gill Commentary Genesis 46:29

"And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while." — Genesis 46:29 (ASV)

And Joseph made ready his chariot
Or "bound" ^F25 it, fastened the horses to it, harnessed them, and put them to; this he did not himself, as Jarchi thinks, for the honour of his father; but rather, as Aben Ezra, by ordering his servants to do it:

and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen ;
that being higher than the other part of Egypt, as it must be, if it was in Thebes, or upper Egypt, as some Jewish writers say ^F26 ; and Fium, supposed to be the place the Israelites dwelt in, see (Genesis 47:11) , stood very high ^F1 :

and presented himself unto him ;
alighted from his chariot, and came up to his father, and stood before him, and showed himself to him, declaring who he was:

and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while :
either Jacob fell on the neck of Joseph, and wept over him a good while before he could speak to him, as the father of the prodigal son fell on his neck and kissed him, (Luke 15:20) ; or, as Jarchi, Joseph fell on his father's neck, as he had done upon his brethren before, but wept over him longer; their embraces were no doubt mutual and extremely affectionate, that for a while they were not able to speak a word to each other.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F25: (roayw) "et ligavit", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; "tum alligavit", Schmidt.
• F26: Hieron. Quaestion. in Genesim, fol. 72. M. tom. 3.
• F1: Leo. African. Descriptio Africae, l. 8. p. 722.