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Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father`s house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, `My brothers, and my father`s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
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The Wisdom of Separation
Commentators explain that Joseph's plan to tell Pharaoh his family were shepherds was strategically wise. Since shepherds were an 'abomination' to Egyptians, this ensured the family would be settled separately in Goshen. This isolation was providentially used by God to protect them from assimilating into Egyptian idolatry and to preserve them as a distinct people, the 'body of the Church' as Calvin puts it.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
פלוּא pallû' — Pallu, “distinguished.” חצרן chetsrôn — Chetsron, of the “court,” or “village.” כרמי
16th Century
Protestant
I will go up and show Pharaoh. After Joseph had gone out to meet his father to honor him, he also provides what will be useful for him. Fo…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Joseph said unto his brethren, and to his father's house , &c.] To them and their families, after he had paid hi…
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