Genesis 41:40

Be ruled. The Hebrew expression thus translated was long given various strange explanations by commentators, until the suggestion was made that an Egyptian expression might form the basis of the text. If so, the statement would read, literally, “According to your word [or mouth] all my people shall kiss.” In colloquial Egyptian, however, the phrase “to kiss” also means “to eat.” Moses’ first readers, all of whom grew up in Egypt, would certainly have understood what was meant. If this was Moses’ meaning, it would constitute additional evidence that Moses, a man educated in Egypt, wrote the book of Genesis. If, on the other hand, the expression is Hebrew, the word translated “be ruled,” from a root meaning “to cling to,” “to hang upon,” should be rendered “be obedient.”