Exodus 1:8

Now there arose a melech chadash over Mitzrayim, which had no da'as of Yosef.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

In Context

7And the Bnei Yisroel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and became exceeding strong; and the land was filled with them.

9And he said unto his people, Hinei, the Am Bnei Yisroel are more and stronger than we.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:9Now therefore, hinei, the cry of the Bnei Yisroel is come unto Me; and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

Judges 2:10And also all that dor were gathered unto their avot; and there arose another dor after them, which had no da'as of Hashem, nor yet the ma'aseh which He had done for Yisroel.

Ecclesiastes 9:15Now there was found in it a poor chacham, and he by his chochmah delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

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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