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This third volume of Westermann’s masterful commentary on Genesis offers a stimulating treatment of one of the most poignant and unified of the narratives in Genesis—the Joseph story. English-speaking readers now have access to Westermann’s thorough introduction to Genesis 37–50 as a whole, as well as treatments of the individual passages familiar from the first two volumes: • Rich...

for his youngest son, the reason being that the boy was a child of his old age. Gen. 25:28* also tells of the predilection of parents for one of the sons. The narrator accepts this reality without making any judgment. “Predilection” is not to be understood here in a quantative sense; the reason for it is that Joseph “is a child of his old age.” When a man’s life span is drawing to a close and a child is born to him, then this is something different from the situation of a young man at the height
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