Exodus 1:5

And all the souls that came forth from the thigh of Jakob were seventy souls, with Joseph who was in Mizraim.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

In Context

4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

6And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation;

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Cross References

Genesis 50:22And Joseph dwelt in Mizraim, he and his father’s house. And Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

Deuteronomy 10:22With seventy souls went thy fathers down into Mizraim, and now the Lord thy God hath set thee 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 →

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