And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
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Gill's Exposition
And Israel said, it is enough, Joseph my son is yet alive,.... Or it is "much" or "great" (m); he had much joy, as the Targums; this was the greatest blessing of all, and more to him than all the…
- Joseph Made Himself Known to His Brethren 10. גשׁן gôshen, Goshen, Gesem (Arabias related perhaps to גשׁם geshem “rain, shower”), a region on the borders of Egypt and Arabia, near the gulf of Suez.…
Adam Clarke
It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive - It was not the state of dignity to which Joseph had arisen that particularly affected Jacob, it was the consideration that he was still alive. It was this…
We have here the good news brought to Jacob. 1. The relation of it, at first, sunk his spirits. When, without any preamble, his sons came in, crying, Joseph is yet alive, each striving which should…
Cambridge Bible
It is enough Lat. sufficit mihi. Jacob's conviction is expressed in brief simple words.
It is left to our imagination to consider how his sons succeeded in satisfactorily explaining to Jacob Joseph's…