You are also directed to tell them: ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
- KJV Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
- NKJV Now you are commanded—do this: Take carts out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives; bring your father and come.
- NASB Now you are ordered, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come.
- NLT Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt to carry your little children and your wives, and bring your father here.
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Quick answer
Pharaoh commands that wagons be sent for the little ones and wives, and to bring Jacob. He removes every obstacle to the journey.
Overview
Pharaoh orders Egyptian wagons to transport the women, children, and Jacob himself. This practical provision makes the long journey feasible for the whole family. The wagons will later become the very sign that convinces the doubting Jacob his son is alive.
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Cross-references · 5
- Gen 46:5Then Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.
- Gen 45:27However, when they relayed all that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was revived.
- Isa 49:1Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
- Isa 49:23Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
- Gen 31:17–18Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,
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