Genesis 46:30

30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now that I've seen for myself that you're still alive, I'm ready to die."

Genesis 46:30 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 46:30

And Israel said unto Joseph
He broke silence first:

now let me die, since I have seen thy face;
not that he was impatient to die, and not desirous to live any longer; for it could not but yield pleasure to him, and make the remainder of his life more comfortable to live with such a son, his darling, and now in so much honour and grandeur; but this he said to express his great satisfaction at the sight of him, that he could now be content to die, having all his heart could wish for, an interview with his beloved son:

because thou [art] yet alive;
whom he had looked upon as dead, and the receiving him now was as life from the dead, and could not but fill him with the greatest joy, see ( Luke 15:23 Luke 15:24 Luke 15:32 ) ; Jacob lived after this seventeen years, ( Genesis 47:28 ) .

Genesis 46:30 In-Context

28 Israel sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When Israel's family arrived in the region of Goshen,

29 Joseph prepared his chariot and went to meet his father Israel. As soon as he saw his father, he threw his arms around him and cried on his shoulder a long time.

30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now that I've seen for myself that you're still alive, I'm ready to die."

31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father's family, "I'm going to Pharaoh to tell him, 'My brothers and my father's family, who were in Canaan, have come to me.

32 The men are shepherds. They take care of livestock. They've brought their flocks and herds and everything they own.'