Exodus 1:6

Eventually Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.

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

In Context

5Jacob had 70 descendants there, including Joseph who was already in Egypt.

7However, the Israelites had many children and their numbers increased rapidly. In fact there were so many of them that they became very powerful—the country was full of them.

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Cross References

Genesis 50:24“I'm going to die soon,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will be with you, and he will lead you out of this country to the land that he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Judges 2:10Once that generation had passed away, the generation that followed did not know the Lord, or what he had done for Israel.

Acts 7:14Joseph sent for his father and all his relatives—seventy-five in total.

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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