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.
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- 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.
- BSB 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.
- 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 46:5Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
- Gen 45:27They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.
- Isa 49:1Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother he has mentioned my name.
- Isa 49:23Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
- Gen 31:17–18Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
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