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All his daughters; Dinah, and his daughters-in-law, and his sons’ daughters.
The grave; this Hebrew word sheol is taken sometimes for hell, as Job_11:8 Pro_15:11, but most commonly for the grave, or the place or state of the dead, as Gen_42:38 44:29,31 Psa 6:5 16:10, &c. And whether of those it signifies, must be determined by the subject and the circumstances of the place. Here it cannot be meant of hell, for Jacob neither could believe that good Joseph was there, nor would have resolved to go thither; but the sense is, I will kill myself with grief, or I will never leave mourning till I die.
Unto my son; or, for my son: so the preposition el is oft used for al, as 1Sa_1:27 4:19,21,22 2Sa_21:2.