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verse. They will remember that Joseph, having been raised to a place of great influence, encouraged his father and the great household of which he was one to come to Egypt; and, of course, as long as Joseph lived, and his great public service was gratefully remembered, they were treated with favor and enjoyed prosperity. It was a promise to their fathers that their offspring would increase and multiply, and in fulfilment of it the group of people that Pharaoh had welcomed—seventy in number (v. 5)—had now become so numerous that the monarch, who had nothing to do with or to recall Joseph’s services (v. 8), and who ruled that part of Egypt (for all the land was not under one ruler), began to fear them. He dreaded what might happen. If a war broke out—and such events were common where rival races and leaders held portions of a great country—the Hebrews might side with the enemy, defeat him and his army, and so be free to “get them up out of the land.” Incidentally he here confirms