child] The word Jeled, in the Originall properly signifieth a child newly borne, as Exodus 1:17. &Chap. 2. vers. 7, 8. Or a child not yet weaned, Gen. 21. vers. 8. and the same word was applied to Joseph when he was seventeene yeares of age, Gen. 37. vers. 30. And this extenuating terme is given either out of compassion, importing tendernesse, such a tendernesse as one would use to a little child, as in that case of Joseph; or it is taken by way of excuse, as an officious lie, as in this place, to keepe Benjamin at home with his father, as if he were so little and so tender, that he were unfit and unable to take, or to be brought so long a journey. a little one] That is, the least in yeares, though by this time the father of divers children, (for at his coming into Egypt with Jacob he was the father of ten, Chap. 46. vers. 21.) and then (as some account his age) he was thirty years old, at the least foure or five and twenty.