Exodus 1:5

Therfor alle the soules of hem that yeden out of `the hipe of Jacob weren seuenti and fyue.

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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 Neptalim, Gad, and Aser.

6Forsothe Joseph was in Egipt; and whanne he was deed, and alle hise brithren, and al his kynrede,

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Cross References

Genesis 50:22and he dwellide in Egipt, with al the hows of his fadir. And he lyuyde an hundrid yeer, and he seiy the sones of Effraym til to the thridde generacioun; also the sones of Machir, son of Manasses, weren borun in the knees of Joseph.

Deuteronomy 10:22In seuenti men thi fadris yeden doun in to Egipt, and lo! now thi Lord God hath multiplied thee as the sterris of heuene.

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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