* 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.
 
  18:2  19:1  23:7  33:3  42:6  Ex 20:12  34:8  Le 19:3,32  1Ki 2:19 
  2Ki 4:37  Pr 31:28  Eph 6:1