Geneva Bible Notes: Genesis 41

Genesis 41:1 (a) This dreame was not so muche for Pharoah, as to be a meane to deliuer Joseph, and to prouide for his Church.

Genesis 41:1 (/) Ebr. at the end of two yeres of daies.

Genesis 41:2 (/) Or, flaggy place.

Genesis 41:5 (b) All these meanes God vsed to deliuer his seruant, & to bring him into fauour and autoritie.

Genesis 41:8 (d) The wise of the worlde vnderstand not Gods secrets, but to his seruants his wil is reueiled.

Genesis 41:8 (c) This feare was ynough to teache him, that this vision was sent of God.

Genesis 41:9 (e) He confesseth his faute against the King, before he speake of Joseph.

Genesis 41:12 (/) Read {Chapter. 40,5}.

Genesis 41:14 (f) The wicked seke to the Prophets of God in their necessitie, whome in their prosperitie they abhorre.

Genesis 41:16 (g) As thogh he wolde say, if I interpret thy dreame, it cometh of God & not of me.

Genesis 41:16 (/) Ebr. answer peace.

Genesis 41:19 (/) Ebr. naught.

Genesis 41:21 (/) Ebr. were gone into their inwarde partes.

Genesis 41:25 (h) Bothe his dreames tend to one end.

Genesis 41:26 (!) Pharoahs dreames are expounded by Joseph.

Genesis 41:29 (/) Or, abundance and saturitie.

Genesis 41:31 (/) Or, they shal remembre no more the plentie.

Genesis 41:33 (i) The office of a true Prophet is not onely to shewe the euils to come, but also the remedies for the same.

Genesis 41:38 (k) None shuld be preferred to honour that haue not gifts of God mete for the same

Genesis 41:40 (!) He is made ruler ouer all Egypt.

Genesis 41:40 (/) Ebr. mouthe.

Genesis 41:40 (l) Some read the people shal kisse thy mouthe: that is, shal obey thee in all things.

Genesis 41:42 (/) Or, his signes.

Genesis 41:43 (m) In signe of honour: which worde some expound, tender father, or father of the King, or knele downe.

Genesis 41:43 (/) Ebr. seconde charet.

Genesis 41:45 (/) Or, priest.

Genesis 41:45 (/) Or, the expounder of secrets.

Genesis 41:46 (n) His age is mencioned both to shewe that his autoritie came of God, and also that he suffred imprisonment & exile twelue yeres and mo.

Genesis 41:47 (/) Ebr. made for gatherings.

Genesis 41:51 (o) Notwithstanding that his fathers house was the true Church of God: yet the companie of the wicked and prosperitie caused him to forget it.

Genesis 41:51 (!) He hathe two sonnes: Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 41:54 (!) The famine beginneth throughout the worlde.

Genesis 41:54 (/) Or fode.

Genesis 41:57 (/) Or, came to Egypt to Joseph.