Exodus 1:2
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
In Context
3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
Cross References
Genesis 46:25These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 1:2-8
Exodus Moses (the servant of the Lord in writing for him as well as in acting for him—with the pen of God as well as with the rod of God in his hand) having, in the first book of his history, preserved and transmitted the records of the church, while it existed in private families, comes, in this second book, to give us an account of its growth into a great nation; and, as the former furnishes us with the best economics, so this with the best politics. The beginning of the former book shows us how God formed the… Read the whole commentary →