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When he died (τελευτῶν)
Comp. Gen 1:26, lxx. The verb means to finish or close, with life understood. Always in this sense in N.T. See Mat 2:19; Mat 9:18; Luk 7:2, etc. Never used by Paul. Rend. “when near his end.”
Made mention of (περὶ - ἐμνημόνευσεν)
See on Heb 11:15. A.V. has remembered in marg. Remembered is appropriate here. Joseph on his death-bed remembered the promise of God to give the land of Canaan to the seed of Abraham (Gen 12:7; Gen 13:15; Gen 15:7), and also the prediction to Abraham that his descendants should pass four hundred years in bondage in a strange land, and should afterward be brought out thence, Gen 15:13, Gen 15:14.
The departing of the children of Israel (τῆς ἐξόδου τῶν υἱῶν Ισραὴλ)
Ἔξοδος only here, Luk 9:31 (note) and 2Pe 1:15 (note). Ὁι υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ is one of several phrases in N.T. denoting the chosen people. There are also house (οἶκος) and people (λαὸς) of Israel, and Israel of God, and Israel according to the flesh.
And gave commandment (καὶ ἐνετείλατο)
Καὶ and so; in consequence of his remembering the prophecy of the exodus. The verb indicates a specific injunction (ἐντολή). See on 1Ti 6:14.