Exodus 1:5
All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.
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4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
6Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
Cross References
Genesis 50:22Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.
Deuteronomy 10:22Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.
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 →