Chuàngshìjì 46:31

31 Yūesè duì tāde dìxiōng hé tā fǔ de quán jiā shuō , wǒ yào shàng qù gàosu fǎlǎo , duì tā shuō , wǒde dìxiōng hé wǒ fǔ de quán jiā cóng qián zaì Jiānán dì , xiànjīn dōu dào wǒ zhèlǐ lái le .

Chuàngshìjì 46:31 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 46:31

And Joseph said unto his brethren, and to his father's house,
&c.] To them and their families, after he had paid his filial respects to his father, in honour, reverence, and affection:

I will go up and shew Pharaoh;
acquaint him that his father and all his family were come to Egypt; he says, "I will go up"; which same phrase is used of him, ( Genesis 46:29 ) ; when he came, and carries some difficulty in it how to account for it, that he should be said to go up when he came, and to go up when he returned. Some have thought of upper Egypt, others of the upper part of the Nile, and others, that Pharaoh's palace was situated on an eminence; but then, as it is to be supposed he went the same road he came, it would have been said, that when he came, he came down; what Ben Melech suggests seems most agreeable, I will go up to my chariot, mount that, and return to Pharaoh, and give him an account of his father's arrival, which it was very proper, prudent, and politic to do:

and say unto him, my brethren, and my father's house, which [were] in
the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
not merely to pay him a visit, but to continue there.

Chuàngshìjì 46:31 In-Context

29 Yūesè tào chē wàng Gēshān qù , yíngjiē tā fùqin Yǐsèliè , jízhì jiàn le miàn , jiù fú zaì fùqin de jǐngxiàng , kū le xǔjiǔ .

30 Yǐsèliè duì Yūesè shuō , wǒ jì de jiàn nǐde miàn , zhīdào nǐ hái zaì , jiù shì sǐ wǒ yĕ gānxīn .

31 Yūesè duì tāde dìxiōng hé tā fǔ de quán jiā shuō , wǒ yào shàng qù gàosu fǎlǎo , duì tā shuō , wǒde dìxiōng hé wǒ fǔ de quán jiā cóng qián zaì Jiānán dì , xiànjīn dōu dào wǒ zhèlǐ lái le .

32 Tāmen bĕn shì mù yáng de rén , yǐ yǎng shēngchù wéi yè . tāmen bǎ yáng qún niú qún hé yīqiè suǒyǒude dōu daì lái le .

33 Dĕng fǎlǎo shào nǐmen de shíhou , wèn nǐmen shuō , nǐmen yǐ hé shì wéi yè .