Genesis 45:19
in Genesis 45You are also directed to tell them: ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Now thou art commanded, this do ye: take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
KJV
Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
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This verse in Genesis 45
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Take wagons from the land of Egypt
on Genesis 45:19-21
Pharaoh orders wagons for the young children and the wives, and tells them to pay no regard to their belongings. Abram had gone down into Egypt in a famine at 12:10 and come up richer than he went, and it happens to a household here before it happens to a nation. Adam Clarke reads the wagons as a road already travelled.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Now thou art commanded, this do ye,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
It displays the character of this Pharaoh to advantage, that he was so kind to the relatives of Joseph; but indeed the greatest liberality he could show could never recompense the services of so great a benefactor of his kingdom.
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַתָּ֥ה | veatah | and you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| צֻוֵּ֖יתָה | tzuveitah | you are commanded | H6680 → | 494 times |
| זֹ֣את | zot | this | H2063 → | 603 times |
| עֲשׂ֑וּ | ʾasu | do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| קְחוּ־ | kechu- | take | H3947 → | 966 times |
| לָכֶם֩ | lakhem | for yourselves | ||
| מֵאֶ֨רֶץ | meeretz | from [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| מִצְרַ֜יִם | mitzrayim | Egypt | H4714 → | 641 times |
| עֲגָל֗וֹת | agalot | carts | H5699 → | 25 times |
| לְטַפְּכֶם֙ | letapekhem | for little one[s] your | H2945 → | 42 times |
| וְלִנְשֵׁיכֶ֔ם | velinsheikhem | and for wives your | H802 → | 781 times |
| וּנְשָׂאתֶ֥ם | unesatem | and you will carry | H5375 → | 656 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֲבִיכֶ֖ם | ʾavikhem | father your | H1 → | 1212 times |
| וּבָאתֶֽם׃ | uvatem | and you will come | H935 → | 2568 times |
וְאַתָּ֥הand you
veatahH859 →1094 times
צֻוֵּ֖יתָהyou are commanded
tzuveitahH6680 →494 times
זֹ֣אתthis
zotH2063 →603 times
עֲשׂ֑וּdo
ʾasuH6213 →2628 times
קְחוּ־take
kechu-H3947 →966 times
לָכֶם֩for yourselves
lakhem
מֵאֶ֨רֶץfrom [the] land of
meeretzH776 →2504 times
מִצְרַ֜יִםEgypt
mitzrayimH4714 →641 times
עֲגָל֗וֹתcarts
agalotH5699 →25 times
לְטַפְּכֶם֙for little one[s] your
letapekhemH2945 →42 times
וְלִנְשֵׁיכֶ֔םand for wives your
velinsheikhemH802 →781 times
וּנְשָׂאתֶ֥םand you will carry
unesatemH5375 →656 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
אֲבִיכֶ֖םfather your
ʾavikhemH1 →1212 times
וּבָאתֶֽם׃and you will come
uvatemH935 →2568 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 49:23Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD;…
it leads to
- Isaiah 60:16
You will drink the milk of nations and nurse at the breasts of royalty; you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
- Isaiah 60:14
The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy…
- Isaiah 60:3
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
- Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of…
- Isaiah 45:14
This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge…
- Isaiah 60:16
Through
Isaiah 49:1Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- Galatians 1:15
But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
- Isaiah 44:2
This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
- Jeremiah 1:5
About Genesis
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.