Exodus 1:6

When he had died, along with all of his brothers and all of that generation,

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In The King James Version

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

In Context

5Therefore, all the souls of those who went forth from Jacob’s thigh were seventy. Now Joseph was in Egypt.

7the sons of Israel increased, and they multiplied like seedlings. And having been strengthened exceedingly, they filled the land.

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Cross References

Genesis 50:24And when he had made them swear and had said, “God will visit you; carry my bones with you from this place,”

Judges 2:10And that entire generation was gathered to their fathers. And there rose up others, who had not known the Lord and the works that he had done for Israel.

Acts 7:14Then Joseph sent for and brought his father Jacob, with all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

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 →

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