창세기 46:30 해설: Rashi, Kli Yakar, Sforno & Or HaChaim

אמותה הפעם NOW, I WILL FAIN DIE — It's literal meaning is as the Targum renders it. A Midrashic explanation is (being based upon the literal translation. “I will die this once”): I had thought that I would die two deaths, in this world and also in the world to come, because the Divine Presence departed from me and I therefore thought that God would hold me responsible for your death. Now, since you are alive I will die only once, in this world (Midrash Tanchuma, Vayigash 9).

Now I can die. [Literally: I shall die this time.] Since before this, his life was a life of suffering and he was considered as if dead while living — as though he had already died, passed away, and departed from the world. However, now that it says and the spirit of Jacob their father was revived, meaning he became a living person, from now on he would be destined for death only once, and not many deaths. For one who is considered as dead due to a life of suffering is as if he dies every day. And so it says, And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the days of his life were 147 years, because through the peaceful life he had during those seventeen years, it was retroactively as if he had lived all 147 years as pleasant lives — which are truly called “life.”

אמותה הפעם, I have been saved from all my other afflictions only in order to experience new troubles afterwards. This time, I pray that I will be spared any more troubles during the rest of my life.