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Ge 46:1-4.
英文原文
Ge 46:1-4.
SACRIFICE AT BEER-SHEBA.
1. Israel took his journey with all that he had--that is, his household; for in compliance with Pharaoh's recommendation, he left his heavy furniture behind. In contemplating a step so important as that of leaving Canaan, which at his time of life he might never revisit, so pious a patriarch would ask the guidance and counsel of God. With all his anxiety to see Joseph, he would rather have died in Canaan without that highest of earthly gratifications than leave it without the consciousness of carrying the divine blessing along with him.
came to Beer-sheba--That place, which was in his direct route to Egypt, had been a favorite encampment of Abraham
(Ge 21:33)
and Isaac
(Ge 26:25),
and was memorable for their experience of the divine goodness; and Jacob seems to have deferred his public devotions till he had reached a spot so consecrated by covenant to his own God and the God of his fathers.
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2. 神对以色列说话——这等于圣约的更新，并保证其福气。再者，这里也回答了雅各祷告中的主要题目，并解除了他对所谋之途的疑虑。起初，能亲去见约瑟的展望使他满心喜乐。但冷静思量之后，似乎有许多难处挡路。他可能记得神对亚伯拉罕的预言：他的后裔要在埃及受苦，又记得他父亲曾被明明白白地受命不可下
[Ge 15:13；26:2]；
他可能担心偶像崇拜的污染会临到他的家，并担心他们忘记应许之地。这些疑虑都被神谕的回答消除了，并得着将有大而日增之兴旺的保证。
英文原文
2. God spake unto Israel--Here is a virtual renewal of the covenant and an assurance of its blessings. Moreover, here is an answer on the chief subject of Jacob's prayer and a removal of any doubt as to the course he was meditating. At first the prospect of paying a personal visit to Joseph had been viewed with unmingled joy. But, on calmer consideration, many difficulties appeared to lie in the way. He may have remembered the prophecy to Abraham that his posterity was to be afflicted in Egypt and also that his father had been expressly told not to go
[Ge 15:13; 26:2];
he may have feared the contamination of idolatry to his family and their forgetfulness of the land of promise. These doubts were removed by the answer of the oracle, and an assurance given him of great and increasing prosperity.
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3. 我必在那里使你成为大国——这应许的成就何等真实：下到埃及的七十个人，在二百一十五年间
[Ex 1:5-7]
增至十八万。
英文原文
3. I will there make of thee a great nation--How truly this promise was fulfilled, appears in the fact that the seventy souls who went down into Egypt increased
[Ex 1:5-7],
in the space of two hundred fifteen years, to one hundred eighty thousand.
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4. 我也必带你上来——雅各既不能期望活到前一个应许实现之时，他必明白后者只能成就在他后裔身上。对他自己而言，这话在他遗体被运回迦南时便字面应验了；但就这话宽大丰厚的意义而言，则只在以色列人在应许之地立国时才得应验。
约瑟必给你合上眼睛——必尽儿子最后的孝道；这含示他此后将不间断地享受与那宠儿的同在。
英文原文
4. I will also surely bring thee up again--As Jacob could not expect to live till the former promise was realized, he must have seen that the latter was to be accomplished only to his posterity. To himself it was literally verified in the removal of his remains to Canaan; but, in the large and liberal sense of the words, it was made good only on the establishment of Israel in the land of promise.
Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes--shall perform the last office of filial piety; and this implied that he should henceforth enjoy, without interruption, the society of that favorite son.
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Ge 46:5-27.
Ge 46:5-27.
迁居埃及。
5. 雅各就从别是巴起行——过境迁居埃及。他虽因在别是巴的敬拜而在心灵活泼振奋，但因年迈体衰，不胜其劳；故此，一切安排的麻烦与劳苦都由众子承担，而那衰弱的老列祖则与妻儿一同坐埃及派来迎接他们的车辆，缓缓从容地前行。
英文原文
Ge 46:5-27.
IMMIGRATION TO EGYPT.
5. And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba--to cross the border and settle in Egypt. However refreshed and invigorated in spirit by the religious services at Beer-sheba, he was now borne down by the infirmities of advanced age; and, therefore, his sons undertook all the trouble and toil of the arrangements, while the enfeebled old patriarch, with the wives and children, was conveyed by slow and leisurely stages in the Egyptian vehicles sent for their accommodation.
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6. 他们在那地……所得的财物——不是家具，而是财物——珍贵之物。
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6. goods, which they had gotten in the land--not furniture, but substance--precious things.
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7. 女儿——因底拿是他唯一的女儿，这必是指儿媳。
将他的众子……都带下来——他虽因年老不能亲自监管，但作为部族中可敬的酋长，他被视作他们的共同首领，每一步都征询他的意见。
英文原文
7. daughters--As Dinah was his only daughter, this must mean daughters-in-law.
all his seed brought he with him--Though disabled by age from active superintendence, yet, as the venerable sheik of the tribe, he was looked upon as their common head and consulted in every step.
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8-27. 雅各家来到埃及的共有七十人——严格说，到埃及的只有六十六人；但加上约瑟和他的两个儿子，以及这家族的首领雅各，总数便是七十。在司提反的讲话中
(Ac 7:14)
说是七十五人；但那个估计包括了以法莲和玛拿西在埃及所生的五个儿子
(1Ch 7:14-20)，
所以两份记录相符。
英文原文
8-27. all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten--Strictly speaking, there were only sixty-six went to Egypt; but to these add Joseph and his two sons, and Jacob the head of the clan, and the whole number amounts to seventy. In the speech of Stephen
(Ac 7:14)
the number is stated to be seventy-five; but as that estimate includes five sons of Ephraim and Manasseh
(1Ch 7:14-20),
born in Egypt, the two accounts coincide.
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Ge 46:28-34.
Ge 46:28-34.
抵达埃及。
28. 他打发犹大先去见约瑟——这一预防措施显然是恰当的，为要告知王有如此庞大的队伍进入他的境内；此外，为要从约瑟领受指示，知道他们将来定居的所在，这也是必要的。
英文原文
Ge 46:28-34.
ARRIVAL IN EGYPT.
28. he sent Judah before him unto Joseph--This precautionary measure was obviously proper for apprising the king of the entrance of so large a company within his territories; moreover, it was necessary in order to receive instruction from Joseph as to the locale of their future settlement.
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29, 30. 约瑟套车——车与马车的区别不仅在前者构造较轻巧华美，还在于前者用马牵，后者用牛牵。约瑟既为埃及的公众人物，必须处处乘坐与其尊严相称的车马；因此他乘自己的马车，而父家只乘简陋寒酸的马车，并非出于骄傲或浮华的排场。
到他面前——以孝敬的姿态出现（参
出 22:17）。
这相会极其感人——这位喜乐的父亲此时幸福达到了顶点；既生命已无更高的乐趣，他便能像年迈的西面一样，平平安安地去世
[路 2:25, 29]。
英文原文
29, 30. Joseph made ready his chariot--The difference between chariot and wagon was not only in the lighter and more elegant construction of the former, but in the one being drawn by horses and the other by oxen. Being a public man in Egypt, Joseph was required to appear everywhere in an equipage suitable to his dignity; and, therefore, it was not owing either to pride or ostentatious parade that he drove his carriage, while his father's family were accommodated only in rude and humble wagons.
presented himself unto him--in an attitude of filial reverence (compare
Ex 22:17).
The interview was a most affecting one--the happiness of the delighted father was now at its height; and life having no higher charms, he could, in the very spirit of the aged Simeon, have departed in peace
[Lu 2:25, 29].
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31-34. 约瑟说，我要上去告诉法老——通知王他们到了，这是当向王尽的敬意。他所给他们的指示，无论作为一个深情的兄弟还是一个敬虔之人，都与他相称。
英文原文
31-34. Joseph said, . . . I will go up, and show Pharaoh--It was a tribute of respect due to the king to inform him of their arrival. And the instructions which he gave them were worthy of his character alike as an affectionate brother and a religious man.
Ge 46:1-4.
在别是巴献祭。
1. 以色列带着他一切所有的起行——即他的家眷；因为照着法老的建议，他把笨重的家具留下了。在考虑像离开迦南这样重要的一步（按他这年纪恐怕再也不能重访）时，这样敬虔的列祖必会求神的引导和指教。他虽渴望见约瑟，却宁愿在迦南死而无此世上至高的满足，也不愿在没有带着神祝福之确据的情况下离开。
到了别是巴——那地方是他往埃及的直达路上，曾是亚伯拉罕
(Ge 21:33)
和以撒
(Ge 26:25)
喜爱的扎营地，也因他们经历神的恩慈而值得纪念；雅各似乎把他公开的敬拜，延到他到了这样一个借着圣约分别为圣归给他自己的神、他列祖的神的地方才举行。