Exodus 1:5
And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as for Joseph, he was in Egypt.
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4Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
6And Joseph dies, and all his brothers, and all that generation;
Cross References
Genesis 50:22And Joseph dwells in Egypt, he and the house of his father, and Joseph lives one hundred and ten years,
Deuteronomy 10:22Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now your God YHWH has made you as [the] stars of the heavens for multitude.”
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 →