Genesis 48:12 (KJV)

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And Joseph brought them out from between his knees and he bowed himself with his face to the earth
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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. Ge 18:2 Ge 19:1 Ge 23:7 Ge 33:3 Ge 42:6 Ex 20:12 Ex 34:8 Le 19:3 Le 19:32 1Ki 2:19 2Ki 4:37 Pr 31:28 Eph 6:1

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