Exodus 1:5
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
6Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
Cross References
Genesis 50:22Now Joseph and his father’s household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.
Deuteronomy 10:22Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
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 →