Exodus 1:5
Jacob had 70 descendants there, including Joseph who was already in Egypt.
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4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
6Eventually Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.
Cross References
Genesis 50:22Joseph remained in Egypt, together with his father's whole family. He lived to be 110,
Deuteronomy 10:22When your forefathers went to Egypt there were only seventy of them in total, but now God has increased your numbers so much that there are as many of you as there are 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 →