Genesis - 46:30



30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 46:30.

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And the father said to Joseph: Now shall I die with joy, because I have seen thy face, and leave thee alive.
And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, after I have seen thy face, since thou still livest.
and Israel saith unto Joseph, 'Let me die this time, after my seeing thy face, for thou art yet alive.'
And Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living again, I am ready for death.
And the father said to Joseph, "Now I will die happy, because I have seen your face, and I am leaving you behind alive."
Et dixit Israel ad Joseph, Moriar hac vice, postquam vidi faciem tuam: adhuc enim tu vivis.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Now let me die, since I have seen thy face - Perhaps old Simeon had this place in view when, seeing the salvation of Israel, he said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, etc., Luke 2:29.

And Israel said unto Joseph,.... He broke silence first:
now let me die, since I have seen thy face; not that he was impatient to die, and not desirous to live any longer; for it could not but yield pleasure to him, and make the remainder of his life more comfortable to live with such a son, his darling, and now in so much honour and grandeur; but this he said to express his great satisfaction at the sight of him, that he could now be content to die, having all his heart could wish for, an interview with his beloved son:
because thou art yet alive; whom he had looked upon as dead, and the receiving him now was as life from the dead, and could not but fill him with the greatest joy, see Luke 15:23; Jacob lived after this seventeen years, Genesis 47:28.

Then Israel said to Joseph: "Now (הפּעם lit., this time) will I die, after I have seen thy face, that thou (art) still alive."

Now let me die - Not but that it was farther desirable to live with Joseph, and to see his honour and usefulness; but he had so much satisfaction in this first meeting, that he thought it too much to desire or expect any more in this world.

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