And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou shall be over my house,...., Have the care of his domestic affairs, and be the principal man in his palace and court:
and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled; not only in his…
- Joseph Was Exalted 1. יאר ye'or, “river, canal,” mostly applied to the Nile. Some suppose the word to be Coptic. 2. אחוּ 'āchû, “sedge, reed-grass, marsh-grass.” This word is probably Coptic. 8.…
Adam Clarke
The thing was good - Pharaoh and his courtiers saw that the counsel was prudent, and should be carefully followed.
Here is, I. The good advice that Joseph gave to Pharaoh, which was, 1. That in the years of plenty he should lay up for the years of famine, buy up corn when it was cheap, that he might both enrich…
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