Genesis 47:28

“And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, etc.] He lived just the same term of years with Joseph in Egypt as he had lived with him in Syria and Canaan, (<013702>Genesis 37:2); about two hours’ walk from Fium are now to be seen the ruins of an ancient town, which the Coptics say was inhabited by the patriarch Jacob, and for this cause they name it, yet, Modsellet Jacub, or the tabernacle of Jacob f1856, which place is supposed to be in the land of Goshen, (see <014711>Genesis 47:11); so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years; he was one hundred and thirty when he stood before Pharaoh, (<014709>Genesis 47:9); and now had lived in Egypt seventeen years, as in…”

“- Jacob in Goshen 11. רעמסס ra‛mesês, Ra‘meses “son of the sun.” 31. מטה mı̂ṭṭāh, “bed.” מטה maṭṭeh “staff.” Arrangements are now made for the settlement of Israel in Goshen. The administration of Joseph during the remaining years of the famine is then recorded. For the whole of this period his father and brothers are subject to him, as their political superior, according to the reading of his early dreams. We then approach to the death-bed of Jacob, and hear him binding Joseph by an oath to bury him in the grave of his fathers. Genesis 47:1-12 Joseph announces to Pharaoh the arrival of his kindred. “Of the whole of his brethren,” more exactly from the end of his brethren. Five men, a…”