Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 46:7
His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Verse 7. All his seed brought he with him into Egypt.] When Jacob went down into Egypt he was in the one hundred and thirtieth year of his age, two hundred and fifteen years after the promise was made to Abraham, Ge 12:1-4, in the year of the world 2298, and before Christ 1706.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
His daughters; either his daughter Dinah, the plural number for the singular, as Gen 46:23; 21:7; Num 26:8, or Dinah and her daughters; for grandchildren are commonly called their grandfathers children, or sons or daughters; or his daughters-in-law, his sons wives.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
7. daughtersAs Dinah was hisonly daughter, this must mean daughters-in-law.
all his seed brought he withhimThough disabled by age from active superintendence, yet, asthe venerable sheik of the tribe, he was looked upon as their commonhead and consulted in every step.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
His sons, and his sons’ sons with him,…. His eleven sons, and their sons, his grandchildren:
and his daughters; his own daughter Dinah, and his daughters in law, the wives of his sons; for these came with him into Egypt, as appears from Ge 46:5; though the plural may be put for the singular, as in
Ge 46:23:
and his sons’ daughters; and mention is made of Sarah the daughter of Asher, Ge 46:17; Jarchi adds, Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, but it is certain she was born in Egypt, Nu 26:59:
and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt; left none behind him in Canaan, son or daughter; no mention is made of servants, though no doubt many came along with him: the design of the historian is to give an account of Jacob’s children, who they were, and their number, when they came into Egypt, that the increase of them might be observed.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(7) His daughters.See Note on Gen. 37:35.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 46:7. His daughters As he had only one daughter, we must suppose that his daughters-in-law are here meant; see ch. Gen 37:35. Bishop Warburton, according to his usual manner, observes, that “the promise God had made to Abraham, to give his posterity the land of Canaan, could not be performed till that family was grown strong enough to take and keep possession of it. In the mean time, therefore, they were necessitated to reside among idolaters, and to reside unmixed: but whoever examines their history will see that the Israelites ever had a violent propensity to join themselves to Gentile nations, and to practise their manners. God, therefore, in his infinite wisdom, brought them into AEgypt, and kept them there during this period, the only place where they could remain for so long a time safe, and unconfounded with the natives; the ancient AEgyptians being, by numerous institutions, forbidden all fellowship with strangers, and bearing, besides, a particular aversion to the profession of the Israelites, who were shepherds. Thus the natural dispositions of the Israelites, which in AEgypt occasioned their superstitions, and in consequence the necessity of a burdensome ritual, would, in any other country, have absorbed them into Gentilism, and confounded them with idolaters. From the Israelites going into AEgypt, arises a new occasion to adore the footsteps of Eternal Wisdom, in his dispensations to his chosen people.” Divine Legation, vol. 3: p. 415.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Gen 46:7 His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Ver. 7. His daughters, and his sons’ daughters.] That is, by a synecdoche, integri; his niece Serah, and his daughter Dinah, who came down with the rest into Egypt; and therefore was not Job’s wife, as the Jews would persuade us.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
daughters. Compare Gen 31:55 with Gen 46:15, Gen 46:17.
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Reciprocal: Gen 34:7 – were Deu 23:7 – because thou 1Ch 1:41 – The sons
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Gen 46:7. All his seed It is probable they continued to live together in common with their father, and therefore when he went, they all went; which, perhaps, they were the more willing to do, because, though they had heard that the land of Canaan was promised them, yet, to this day, they had none of it in possession. We have here a particular account of the names of Jacobs family; his sons sons, most of whom are afterward mentioned as heads of houses in the several tribes. See Num 26:5, &c, The daughters mentioned seem to have been daughters-in-law. The whole number that went down into Egypt were sixty-six, to which add Joseph and his two sons, who were there before, and Jacob himself, the head of the family, and you have the number of seventy. It was now two hundred and fifteen years since God had promised Abraham to make of him a great nation, Gen 41:2; and yet that branch of his seed, on which the promise was entailed, was as yet increased but to seventy, of which this particular account is kept, that the power of God in multiplying these seventy to so vast a multitude, even in Egypt, may be more illustrious. When he pleases, a little one shall become a thousand.