Genesis 48:8-11

"And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here. Bring them, he said, unto me, and I will bless them. Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also."

It is simply outrageous that any commentator could seriously allege a "contradiction" in this passage, because "in Genesis 48:11 Jacob can see, whereas in Genesis 48:8,10, he is blind!"[4] Such is the wisdom (?) of the critical scholars. This writer has a wonderful friend, Fletcher W. Dailey, Sr., who has been totally blind for thirty years, but he recently made a trip to England with his son. When he returned, he told me all he had "seen" in the British Isles - the Scott Memorial at Edinburgh, the Stonehenge, the Tower of London, even the Crown Jewels, and Holyrood Castle. Of course, blind men, even the totally blind, can "see." We consider it absolutely incredible that any man claiming to be an intellectual is not aware of this common usage of the term "see." As we have pointed out so often in this commentary, the Bible frequently uses words in more than one sense.

In Genesis 48:11, Jacob remarked that God had "let him see" the seed of Joseph, but the interpretation that makes that mean that Jacob had not seen Joseph's sons previously and that therefore this whole episode took place as soon as Jacob came to Egypt, is just as ridiculous as the one just cited by the same author.[5] On the occasion of a family reunion in this writer's own family, with the grandchildren playing around him, our father said: "I praise God that he has permitted me to see, not only my children, but my children's children!" Did that mean that he had never seen any of them before that occasion? Of course not. It was, for him, an oft repeated recognition of the blessing of God; and, without any doubt at all, that is what it was in the words of Jacob here.

These are only two of hundreds of examples that might be cited in the works of partitionists.