Exodus 1:4

Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

In Context

3Issachar, Zebulon, and Benjamin;

5And it came to pass that all the persons who were descended from Jacob were seventy souls,—but, Joseph, was already in Egypt.

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Cross References

Genesis 46:18These, are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter,—so she bare these to Jacob,—sixteen souls.

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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