Chuàngshìjì 47:2

2 Yūesè cóng tā dìxiōng zhōng tiǎo chū wǔ gèrén lái , yǐn tāmen qù jiàn fǎlǎo .

Chuàngshìjì 47:2 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 47:2

And he took some of his brethren
Along with him, when he left his father in Goshen; the word for "some" signifies the extremity of a thing: hence some have fancied that he took some of the meanest and most abject, so Jarchi, lest if they had appeared to Pharaoh strong and robust, he should have made soldiers of them; others on the contrary think he took those that excelled most in strength of body, and endowments of mind, to make the better figure; others, that he took of both sorts, or some at both ends, the first and last, elder and younger; but it may be, he made no choice at all, but took some that offered next:

[even] five men:
whom the Targum of Jonathan names as follow, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher; but Jarchi will have them to be Reuben, Simeon and Levi, Issachar and Benjamin; but on these accounts no dependence is to be had:

and presented them, unto Pharaoh;
introduced them into his presence, that he might converse with them, and ask them what questions he thought fit.

Chuàngshìjì 47:2 In-Context

1 Yūesè jìn qù gàosu fǎlǎo shuō , wǒde fùqin hé wǒde dìxiōng daì zhe yáng qún niú qún , bìng yīqiè suǒyǒude , cóng Jiānán dì lái le , rújīn zaì Gēshān dì .

2 Yūesè cóng tā dìxiōng zhōng tiǎo chū wǔ gèrén lái , yǐn tāmen qù jiàn fǎlǎo .

3 Fǎlǎo wèn Yūesè de dìxiōng shuō , nǐmen yǐ kè shì wéi yè , tāmen duì fǎlǎo shuō , nǐ púrén shì mù yáng de , lián wǒmen de zǔzong yĕ shì mù yáng de .

4 Tāmen yòu duì fǎlǎo shuō , Jiānán dì de jīhuāng shèn dà , púrén de yáng qún méiyǒu cǎo chī , suǒyǐ wǒmen lái dào zhè dì jìjū . xiànzaì qiú nǐ róng púrén zhù zaì Gēshān dì .

5 Fǎlǎo duì Yūesè shuō , nǐ fùqin hé nǐ dìxiōng dào nǐ zhèlǐ lái le ,