Exodus 1:5

So al the soules, that came out of the loines of Iaakob, were seuentie soules: Ioseph was in Egypt already.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

6Nowe Ioseph died and all his brethren, and that whole generation.

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Cross References

Genesis 50:22So Ioseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his fathers house: and Ioseph liued an hundreth and tenne yeere.

Deuteronomy 10:22Thy fathers went downe into Egypt with seuentie persons, and now the Lord thy God hath made thee, as ye starres of ye heauen in 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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