Exodus 1:2

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

In Context

1Now, these, are the names of the Sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, with Jacob, did each man and his household come in:—

3Issachar, Zebulon, and Benjamin;

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Cross References

Genesis 46:25These, are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter,—so she bare these to Jacob,—all the souls, were seven.

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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