Exodus 1:6

Then Joseph, 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

5All the people who were descendants of Jacob were seventy in number. Joseph was already in Egypt.

7The Israelites were fruitful, increased greatly in numbers, and became very strong; the land was filled with them.

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Cross References

Genesis 50:24Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die; but God will surely come to you and lead you up out of this land to the land which he swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Judges 2:10All that generation was also gathered to their fathers. Another generation grew up after them who did not know Yahweh or what he had done for Israel.

Acts 7:14Joseph sent his brothers back to tell Jacob his father to come to Egypt, along with all his relatives, seventy-five persons in all.

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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