Then when they entered(1777) the presence of Joseph, he provided a home for his parents with himself, and said: "Enter ye(1778) Egypt (all) in safety if it please Allah."
1777 At length the whole family arrived in Egypt and were reunited with Joseph. They were all entertained and provided with homes. But the parents were treated with special honour, as was becoming both to Joseph's character and ordinary, family ethics. His mother Rachel had long been dead, but he had been brought up by his mother's sister eah, whom his father had also married. Leah was now his mother. They were lodged with Joseph himself. 1778 This is in Arabic in the plural, not in the dual number. The welcome is for all to Egypt , and under the auspices of the Wazir of Egypt. They came, therefore, under Allah's will, to a double sense of security: Egypt was secure from the famine unlike the neighbouring countries; and they were to be cared for by the highest in the land.