Verse 6
6. The governor The word ( שׁלישׂ ) thus rendered occurs elsewhere only in the later Hebrew books Ezekiel, Daniel, and Ecclesiastes . It seems, says Keil, “to have been the standing title which the Shemites gave to Joseph as ruler in Egypt, and from this the later legend of Salatis, the first king of the Hyksos, arose . ” Josephus, Apion, 1: 14 .
He it was that sold Not that Joseph personally attended to all the details of the selling; but he had general oversight and authority; and when, as in the present instance, a large number of foreigners came to buy, he would be called upon to receive them in due form, and see that all was proper. He would not allow a general traffic in Egyptian grain to be carried on among foreign nations in such a time of famine.
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