Verses 1, 2 - All Jacob's sons were living. His calling them together was a precep for them to unite in love, not to mingle with the Egyptians; an foretold that they should not be separated, as Abraham's sons an Isaac's were, but should all make one people. We are not to conside this address as the expression of private feelings of affection resentment, or partiality; but as the language of the Holy Ghost declaring the purpose of God respecting the character, circumstances and situation of the tribes which descended from the sons of Jacob, an which may be traced in their histories.
