Exodus 1:5
And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser.
6After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,
Cross References
Genesis 50:22And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father's house: and lived a hundred and ten years. And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Ma-nasses were born on Joseph's knees.
Deuteronomy 10:22In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.
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 →