6450. 'And he commanded them and said to them' means an introduction. This is clear from what follows in which Israel speaks to his sons about burying him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, where Abraham and Isaac had been buried, by all of which is meant life present in the truths and forms of good of the natural, where interior things and what is inmost exist. And since these things form the subject in what immediately follows, 'commanding his sons and saying to them' means an introduction into them. 'Commanding' means an influx, see 5486, 5732, thus an introduction.