וְאֶת־יְהוּדָ֞ה שָׁלַ֤ח לְפָנָיו֙ אֶל־יוֹסֵ֔ף לְהוֹרֹ֥ת לְפָנָ֖יו גֹּ֑שְׁנָה וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ אַ֥רְצָה גֹּֽשֶׁן׃
און יהודהן האָט ער געשיקט פֿאַרױס פֿאַר זיך צו יוֹספֿן, צו װײַזן אים פֿאַרױס דעם װעג קײן גוֹשֶן; און זײ זײַנען אָנגעקומען קײן לאַנד גוֹשֶן.
Rashi
להורת לפניו TO DIRECT HIM — Render this as the Targum does: to prepare a place for him and to show him how he should settle in it.
Alshekh
They then came to the land of Goshen. Yoseif and Yehudah went to Goshen to prepare a place for Yaakov and it was from there that Yoseif went to greet him.
Chizkuni
ואת יהודה שלח לפניו אל יוסף, “and he (Yaakov) had sent Yehudah ahead to Joseph;” so that he would be informed about which route to travel to the province of Goshen and thus to avoid entering Egypt proper. Joseph had already told him that he would live there in order to be close to Joseph (Genesis 45,6).
Rabbeinu Bahya
צוטריטלעך נאָר פֿאַר פּרעמיום־מיטגלידערRabbeinu Bahya
צוטריטלעך נאָר פֿאַר פּרעמיום־מיטגלידערSiftei Chakhamim
צוטריטלעך נאָר פֿאַר פּרעמיום־מיטגלידערRav Hirsch
צוטריטלעך נאָר פֿאַר פּרעמיום־מיטגלידערRashi
לפניו BEFORE HIM — means before he should arrive there. A Midrashic comment is: להורת לפניו (in the sense of, “that there might be teaching before him”) — to establish for him a House of Study from which Teaching (הוראה or תורה) might go forth (Genesis Rabbah 95:3).