4And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
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And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Joseph is here paying his last respects to his deceased father. 1. With tears and kisses, and all the tender expressions of a filial affection, he takes leave of the deserted body, Gen. 50:1. Though Jacob was old and decrepit, and must needs die in the course of nature—though he was poor comparatively, and a constant charge to his son Joseph, yet such an affection he had for a loving father, and s…
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