Or, according to the mouth of the family; mouth being put for their will or desire, as it is Genesis 24:57 Isaiah 30:2, as much as every one desired, without any restraint; or, according to the manner of a little child, he put their meat into their very months; it was brought to them without any more care or pains of theirs than an infant takes for its food.
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Genesis 47:12
12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, accordingb to their families.