Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 46:33
And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What [is] your occupation?
And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you,…. Order them to come before him, to see them, and have some conversation with them:
and shall say, what [is] your occupation? or your works c, their business and employment, whether they exercised any manufacture or handicraft, and what it was.
c “opus vestrum”, Pagninus, Montanus, “opera vestra”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gen 46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What [is] your occupation?
Ver. 33. When Pharaoh shall call you. ] At Athens every man gave a yearly account to the magistrate, by what trade, or course of life, he maintained himself; which if he could not do, he was banished. a By the law, Mahomet, the great Turk, himself is bound to exercise some manual trade or occupation, for none must be idle: as Solyman the Magnificent’s trade was making of arrow heads; Achmat the Last’s, horn rings for archers, &c.
a Lex illa Solonis imprimis commendatur, ut quisque quotannis, &c. – Textor., Epist. Peacham.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
What is: Gen 46:32, Gen 47:2-4, Jon 1:8
Reciprocal: Gen 47:3 – What is