Exodus 1:5
All the people who were descendants of Jacob were seventy in number. Joseph was already in Egypt.
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4Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
6Then Joseph, all his brothers, and all that generation died.
Cross References
Genesis 50:22Joseph lived in Egypt, together with his father's family. He lived one hundred ten years.
Deuteronomy 10:22Your fathers went down into Egypt as seventy persons; now Yahweh your God has made you as many as the stars of the heavens.
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 →