Genesis 48:12
Then Joseph removed his sons from his father’s knees and bowed facedown.
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- he bowed himself
- Joseph thus shewed that his external greatness did not render him forgetful of the respect due to his father. The Egyptians were remarkable for the reverence paid to old age: "for if a young person meet his senior, he instantly turns aside to make way for him; if an aged person enter an apartment, the youth always rise from their seats;" and Mr. Savary observes, that the same reverence is still paid to old age in Egypt.
- Genesis 18:2; Genesis 19:1; Genesis 23:7; Genesis 33:3; Genesis 42:6; Exodus 20:12; Exodus 34:8; Leviticus 19:3, 32; 1 Kings 2:19; 2 Kings 4:37; Proverbs 31:28; Ephesians 6:1