“The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.”
Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed Pharaoh, Pharaoh asked him: how old are you? The presentation of Jacob to Pharaoh and the blessing — Jacob blessed Pharaoh — is the remarkable inversion of social hierarchy: the patriarch of a group of foreign shepherds blesses the most powerful man in the world. Hebrews 7:7 observes that the lesser is blessed by the greater. The application: the blessing that Jacob gives to Pharaoh is the blessing that flows from the covenant. The covenant patriarch blesses the most powerful man in the world.
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