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. Gen 18:2, Gen 19:1, Gen 23:7, Gen 33:3, Gen 42:6, Exo 20:12, Exo 34:8, Lev 19:3, Lev 19:32, 1Ki 2:19, 2Ki 4:37, Pro 31:28, Eph 6:1