Genesis 41:40 (WEB)
You shall be over my house. All my people will be ruled according to your word. Only in the throne I will be greater than you.”
As quoted in the map (KJV)
Genesis 41:40 (KJV)
Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
Key words
- כִּסֵּאkisse · Hebrew
- 'throne.' Only in the throne is Pharaoh greater — Joseph is raised to the second place in the kingdom, effectively at the king's right hand.
- שְׁלֹשִׁים שָׁנָהsheloshim shanah · Hebrew
- 'thirty years old' (41:46) — Joseph's age when he stands before Pharaoh; Jesus is 'about thirty' when he begins his ministry (Luke 3:23).
Why it matters
The betrayed and imprisoned Joseph is exalted to Pharaoh's right hand at thirty and saves the world by giving it bread (41:55–57), and his brothers do not recognise him when they meet him (42:8). Pitre continues the parallel: Jesus, betrayed and cast down, is raised to God's right hand, feeds the world with the Bread of Life, and is not recognised at first when he appears risen. The completed Joseph pattern seals the case that Mary is the New Rachel.
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“For Joseph fed in Egypt his father and his brethren, and having been impiously sold, because of his piety, chastity, wisdom, he was most justly exalted; and Ephraim by the blessing of his grandfather Jacob was preferred before his elder brother: and yet God “rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and the tribe of…” — editor's note: Gen. xli. 40.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Joseph was a provider of corn, but in Egypt only, and not frequently, and of bodily food.” — editor's note: Gen. xli. 40.
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