Verse 12
he bowed himself: Joseph thus shewed that his external greatness did not render him forgetful of the respect due to his father. The Egyptians were remarkable for the reverence paid to old age: "for if a young person meet his senior, he instantly turns aside to make way for him; if an aged person enter an apartment, the youth always rise from their seats;" and Mr. Savary observes, that the same reverence is still paid to old age in Egypt. Genesis 18:2, Genesis 19:1, Genesis 23:7, Genesis 33:3, Genesis 42:6, Exodus 20:12, Exodus 34:8, Leviticus 19:3, Leviticus 19:32, 1 Kings 2:19, 2 Kings 4:37, Proverbs 31:28, Ephesians 6:1
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