. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. ive! After the first emotions of this meeting had subsided, Joseph proceeded to explain to hisbrothers the further measures which were necessary. He intended himself to go andannounce their arrival to Pharaoh, after which he would introduce some of them to the royalpresence, and they were instructed what answers to return to the questions which the kingwould be likely to ask. He did not conceal from them that every shepherd was an abomi-nation to the Egyptians; and his instructions were skilfully f
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. ive! After the first emotions of this meeting had subsided, Joseph proceeded to explain to hisbrothers the further measures which were necessary. He intended himself to go andannounce their arrival to Pharaoh, after which he would introduce some of them to the royalpresence, and they were instructed what answers to return to the questions which the kingwould be likely to ask. He did not conceal from them that every shepherd was an abomi-nation to the Egyptians; and his instructions were skilfully framed with a reference to thatstate of feeling. So he took with him five of the most comely of his brothers, and returned to the first himself went to the king to inform him that his fathers family had arrived, with alltheir flocks and herds, and were now in the land of Goshen, awaiting his commands. Hisbrothers were then introduced ; and, on being asked what was their occupation, they, as theyhad been taught, answered, that they were shepherds, as all their fathers had been. They. [Overseer of ] These were all his descendants who went down with him from Canaan to Egypt. The number seventy, given elsewhere, countsin, besides, Jacob himself, with Joseph and his two sons who were already in Egypt; and the number seventy-Jive, in the NewTestament (Acts vii. 14), excludes these, but adds to the sixty-five the nine wives of Jacobs eleven sons, the wives of Judahand Simeon being at this time dead. These results are displayed more largely by Dr. Hales, who derives tliem from a criticalexamination and comparison of the passages which bear on the subject. + The central figure, of largest size, is the overseer, who, attended by his clerk, receives accounts of the herdsmen, whosepostures manifest great respect. The one who lies on the ground, at the clerks feet, has probably committed someoETence from which he seeks to avert punishment. The overseer is followed by a ser
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